Snapshot mosaic multispectral imagery acquires an undersampled data cube by acquiring a single spectral measurement per spatial pixel. Sensors which acquire p frequencies, therefore, suffer from severe 1/p undersampling of the full data cube. We show that the missing entries can be accurately imputed using non-convex techniques from sparse approximation and matrix completion initialised with traditional demosaicing algorithms. In particular, we observe the peak signal-to-noise ratio can typically be improved by 2 to 5 dB over current state-of-the-art methods when simulating a p=16 mosaic sensor measuring both high and low altitude urban and rural scenes as well as ground-based scenes.
@article{arxiv.1902.11032,
title = {Multispectral snapshot demosaicing via non-convex matrix completion},
author = {Giancarlo A. Antonucci and Simon Vary and David Humphreys and Robert A. Lamb and Jonathan Piper and Jared Tanner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.11032},
year = {2019}
}