Hybrid multi-stream network for pansharpening based on transformer and convolution
摘要
Pansharpening, the fusion of a high-resolution panchromatic (PAN) image with low-resolution multispectral (LRMS) imagery to produce high-resolution multispectral (HRMS) outputs, remains a core problem in remote sensing. Existing approaches often underemphasize the joint integration of global spatial context and local texture information, which can lead to localized noise and spectral or spatial distortions. In this work, we introduce HMTCnet, a hybrid Transformer–convolutional multi-stream network for pansharpening, which integrates a Spatial Feature Fusion Network (SFN) and a Texture Feature Fusion Network (TFN) through a structured multi-stream collaborative and adaptive fusion mechanism. The SFN employs a self-attention encoder to capture global spatial context and a fusion mechanism to generate high-resolution spatial features (HRT). Subsequently, the PAN image is used as spatial guidance information and aligned with HRT in the Transformer through attention-based cross-spectral feature alignment. The TFN adopts a multi-stream encoder–decoder design to extract, upsample, and compress texture representations. SFN and TFN are connected to enable efficient multi-scale fusion of spatial and texture features, producing the final HRMS result. Extensive experiments on two widely used benchmark datasets demonstrate that HMTCnet significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on standard image-quality metrics. The code is publicly available and can be accessed at https://github.com/jiaruihsi2025/HMTCnet.