Dual-Scale Transformer for Large-Scale Single-Pixel Imaging
Authors: Gang Qu, Ping Wang, Xin Yuan

Single-pixel imaging (SPI) is a potential computational imaging technique which produces image by solving an ill-posed reconstruction problem from few measurements captured by a single-pixel detector. Deep learning has achieved impressive success on SPI reconstruction. However previous poor reconstruction performance and impractical imaging model limit its real-world applications. In this paper we propose a deep unfolding network with hybrid-attention Transformer on Kronecker SPI model dubbed HATNet to improve the imaging quality of real SPI cameras. Specifically we unfold the computation graph of the iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm (ISTA) into two alternative modules: efficient tensor gradient descent and hybrid-attention multi-scale denoising. By virtue of Kronecker SPI the gradient descent module can avoid high computational overheads rooted in previous gradient descent modules based on vectorized SPI. The denoising module is an encoder-decoder architecture powered by dual-scale spatial attention for high- and low-frequency aggregation and channel attention for global information recalibration. Moreover we build a SPI prototype to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real data demonstrate that our method achieves the state-of-the-art performance. The source code and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/Gang-Qu/HATNet-SPI.