  Single-pixel imaging (SPI) is a novel imaging technique whose working
principle is based on the compressive sensing (CS) theory. In SPI, data is
obtained through a series of compressive measurements and the corresponding
image is reconstructed. Typically, the reconstruction algorithm such as basis
pursuit relies on the sparsity assumption in images. However, recent advances
in deep learning have found its uses in reconstructing CS images. Despite
showing a promising result in simulations, it is often unclear how such an
algorithm can be implemented in an actual SPI setup. In this paper, we
demonstrate the use of deep learning on the reconstruction of SPI images in
conjunction with block compressive sensing (BCS). We also proposed a novel
reconstruction model based on convolutional neural networks that outperforms
other competitive CS reconstruction algorithms. Besides, by incorporating BCS
in our deep learning model, we were able to reconstruct images of any size
above a certain smallest image size. In addition, we show that our model is
capable of reconstructing images obtained from an SPI setup while being priorly
trained on natural images, which can be vastly different from the SPI images.
This opens up opportunity for the feasibility of pretrained deep learning
models for CS reconstructions of images from various domain areas.
