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Hyperspectral images (HSI) have a large amount of spectral information reflecting the characteristics of matter, while their spatial resolution is low due to the limitations of imaging technology. Complementary to this are multispectral…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-10 Shuaikai Shi , Lijun Zhang , Jie Chen

We propose an unsupervised image fusion architecture for multiple application scenarios based on the combination of multi-scale discrete wavelet transform through regional energy and deep learning. To our best knowledge, this is the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Shaolei Liu , Manning Wang , Zhijian Song

Typical attempts to improve the capability of visual place recognition techniques include the use of multi-sensor fusion and integration of information over time from image sequences. These approaches can improve performance but have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Stephen Hausler , Adam Jacobson , Michael Milford

A novel multi-focus image fusion algorithm performed in spatial domain based on similarity characteristics is proposed incorporating with region segmentation. In this paper, a new similarity measure is developed based on the structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ya-Qiong Zhang , Xiao-Jun Wu , Hui Li

JPEG compression adopts the quantization of Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficients for effective bit-rate reduction, whilst the quantization could lead to a significant loss of important image details. Recovering compressed JPEG…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Mingyu Ouyang , Zhenzhong Chen

Image fusion plays a vital role in medical imaging. Image fusion aims to integrate complementary as well as redundant information from multiple modalities into a single fused image without distortion or loss of information. In this research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 S. Kavitha , K. K. Thyagharajan

Until now, of highest relevance for remote sensing data processing and analysis have been techniques for pixel level image fusion. So, This paper attempts to undertake the study of Feature-Level based image fusion. For this purpose, feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Firouz Abdullah Al-Wassai , N. V. Kalyankar , Ali A. Al-Zaky

An algebraic integer (AI) based time-multiplexed row-parallel architecture and two final-reconstruction step (FRS) algorithms are proposed for the implementation of bivariate AI-encoded 2-D discrete cosine transform (DCT). The architecture…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-17 A. Madanayake , R. J. Cintra , D. Onen , V. S. Dimitrov , N. T. Rajapaksha , L. T. Bruton , A. Edirisuriya

This paper presents a high speed and area efficient DWT processor based design for Image Compression applications. In this proposed design, pipelined partially serial architecture has been used to enhance the speed along with optimal…

Graphics · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Sugreev Kaur , Rajesh Mehra

Multi-Focus Image Fusion seeks to improve the quality of an acquired burst of images with different focus planes. For solving the task, an activity level measurement and a fusion rule are typically established to select and fuse the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Fidel Alejandro Guerrero Peña , Pedro Diamel Marrero Fernández , Tsang Ing Ren , Germano Crispim Vasconcelos , Alexandre Cunha

With the rapid advancement of diffusion-based generative models, Stable Diffusion (SD) has emerged as a state-of-the-art framework for high-fidelity im-age synthesis. However, existing SD models suffer from suboptimal feature aggregation,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Zhen-Qi Chen , Yuan-Fu Yang

Image Fusion, a technique which combines complimentary information from different images of the same scene so that the fused image is more suitable for segmentation, feature extraction, object recognition and Human Visual System. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-04 R. Balasubramanian , Gaurav Bhatnagar

Objective: The purpose of this manuscript is to accelerate cardiac diffusion tensor imaging (CDTI) by integrating low-rankness and compressed sensing. Methods: Diffusion-weighted images exhibit both transform sparsity and low-rankness.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-12 Sen Ma , Christopher T. Nguyen , Anthony G. Christodoulou , Daniel Luthringer , Jon Kobashigawa , Sang-Eun Lee , Hyuk-Jae Chang , Debiao Li

Recent video codecs with multiple separable transforms can achieve significant coding gains using asymmetric trigonometric transforms (DCTs and DSTs), because they can exploit diverse statistics of residual block signals. However, they add…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Amir Said , Hilmi E. Egilmez , Yung-Hsuan Chao

The paper addresses the image fusion problem, where multiple images captured with different focus distances are to be combined into a higher quality all-in-focus image. Most current approaches for image fusion strongly rely on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Rui Gao , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Hong Zhao

In automatic target recognition (ATR) systems, sensors may fail to capture discriminative, fine-grained detail features due to environmental conditions, noise created by CMOS chips, occlusion, parallaxes, and sensor misalignment. Therefore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Shoaib Meraj Sami , Md Mahedi Hasan , Nasser M. Nasrabadi , Raghuveer Rao

Low-dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) reconstruction is an important task in medical image analysis. Recent years have seen many deep learning based methods, proved to be effective in this area. However, these methods mostly follow a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Runyi Li

Image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple input images acquired through various sources to synthesize a new fused image. Existing methods usually employ distinct constraint designs tailored to specific scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Bing Cao , Xingxin Xu , Pengfei Zhu , Qilong Wang , Qinghua Hu

Camera and LiDAR sensor modalities provide complementary appearance and geometric information useful for detecting 3D objects for autonomous vehicle applications. However, current end-to-end fusion methods are challenging to train and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Anas Mahmoud , Jordan S. K. Hu , Steven L. Waslander

We propose a real-time image fusion method using pre-trained neural networks. Our method generates a single image containing features from multiple sources. We first decompose images into a base layer representing large scale intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Fayez Lahoud , Sabine Süsstrunk