Recently, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have shown impressive performance in the compressive hyperspectral imaging (CHI) reconstruction task, but the high energy consumption limits their deployment on energy-constrained devices. This paper develops a novel spiking neural network (SNN), termed spiking spectral-weighting reconstruction network (SSWR-Net), to significantly improve the energy–efficiency ratio in CHI reconstruction. Firstly, a spiking spectral-weighting convolution block is proposed to adaptively modulate the spiking signals, enabling the SNN to fit continuous spectral correlation curves. Secondly, a residual feature reuse module with more direct connections is designed to achieve efficient and lightweight spatial–spectral feature extraction. Thirdly, customized feature scaling architectures are introduced to resolve the dimensional mismatch issue and enhance information flow. Finally, we propose a novel temporal-wise progressive training method to optimize the multi-timestep SSWR-Net, which can significantly improve both training efficiency and reconstruction quality. Both simulation and real experiments demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method in both CHI reconstruction performance and energy efficiency. Specifically, SSWR-Net outperforms its ANN-based counterpart by 0.87 dB at a 19.74% energy cost.
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