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This paper proposes a novel algorithm for multi-focus thermal image fusion. The algorithm is based on local activity analysis and advanced pre-selection of images into fusion process. The algorithm improves the object temperature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Radek Benes , Pavel Dvorak , Marcos Faundez-Zanuy , Virginia Espinosa-Duro , Jiri Mekyska

Multi-exposure image fusion is a method for producing an image with a wide dynamic range by fusing multiple images taken under various exposure values. In this paper, we discuss color distortion included in fused images, and propose a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Artit Visavakitcharoen , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

Since it is usually difficult to capture an all-in-focus image of a 3D scene directly, various multi-focus image fusion methods are employed to generate it from several images focusing at different depths. However, the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Haoyu Ma , Juncheng Zhang , Shaojun Liu , Qingmin Liao

Image fusion is one of the recent trends in image registration which is an essential field of image processing. The basic principle of this paper is to fuse multi-focus images using simple statistical standard deviation. Firstly, the simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Firas A. Jassim

Convolutional neural networks have recently been used for multi-focus image fusion. However, due to the lack of labeled data for supervised training of such networks, existing methods have resorted to adding Gaussian blur in focused images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Xiang Yan , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Hanlin Qin , Ajmal Mian

A simple, yet general, formalism for the optimized linear combination of astrophysical images is constructed and demonstrated. The formalism allows the user to combine multiple undersampled images to provide oversampled output at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Barnaby Rowe , Christopher Hirata , Jason Rhodes

Infrared and visible image fusion, as a hot topic in image processing and image enhancement, aims to produce fused images retaining the detail texture information in visible images and the thermal radiation information in infrared images. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Zixiang Zhao , Jiangshe Zhang , Shuang Xu , Kai Sun , Chunxia Zhang , Junmin Liu

Multi-focus image fusion aims to generate an all-in-focus image from a sequence of partially focused input images. Existing fusion algorithms generally assume that, for every spatial location in the scene, there is at least one input image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Xinzhe Xie , Buyu Guo , Bolin Li , Shuangyan He , Yanzhen Gu , Qingyan Jiang , Peiliang Li

Multi-focus image fusion technologies compress different focus depth images into an image in which most objects are in focus. However, although existing image fusion techniques, including traditional algorithms and deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Xiebo Geng , Sibo Liua , Wei Han , Xu Li , Jiabo Ma , Jingya Yu , Xiuli Liu , Sahoqun Zeng , Li Chen , Shenghua Cheng

Infrared and visible image fusion has been a hot issue in image fusion. In this task, a fused image containing both the gradient and detailed texture information of visible images as well as the thermal radiation and highlighting targets of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Zixiang Zhao , Shuang Xu , Chunxia Zhang , Junmin Liu , Jiangshe Zhang

Multi-index fusion has demonstrated impressive performances in retrieval task by integrating different visual representations in a unified framework. However, previous works mainly consider propagating similarities via neighbor structure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie , Wensheng Zhang , Qi Tian

In a scenario where multi-modal cameras are operating together, the problem of working with non-aligned images cannot be avoided. Yet, existing image fusion algorithms rely heavily on strictly registered input image pairs to produce more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Zeyang Zhang , Hui Li , Tianyang Xu , Xiaojun Wu , Josef Kittler

Visible images offer rich texture details, while infrared images emphasize salient targets. Fusing these complementary modalities enhances scene understanding, particularly for advanced vision tasks under challenging conditions. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Beining Xu , Junxian Li

An image fusion method based on salient features is proposed in this paper. In this work, we have concentrated on salient features of the image for fusion in order to preserve all relevant information contained in the input images and tried…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-06 Sourav Pramanik , Debotosh Bhattacharjee

Image fusion methods and metrics for their evaluation have conventionally used pixel-based or low-level features. However, for many applications, the aim of image fusion is to effectively combine the semantic content of the input images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 P. R. Hill , D. R. Bull

Image fusion is to reduce uncertainty and minimize redundancy in the output while maximizing relevant information from two or more images of a scene into a single composite image that is more informative and is more suitable for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Srinivasa Rao Dammavalam , Seetha Maddala , M. H. M. Krishna Prasad

The most significant problem may be undesirable effects for the spectral signatures of fused images as well as the benefits of using fused images mostly compared to their source images were acquired at the same time by one sensor. They may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-08-27 Firouz Abdullah Al-Wassai , N. V. Kalyankar

This paper proposes a fast multi-band image fusion algorithm, which combines a high-spatial low-spectral resolution image and a low-spatial high-spectral resolution image. The well admitted forward model is explored to form the likelihoods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Qi Wei , Nicolas Dobigeon , Jean-Yves Tourneret

Complex degradations like noise, blur, and low resolution are typical challenges in real world image fusion tasks, limiting the performance and practicality of existing methods. End to end neural network based approaches are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yu Shi , Yu Liu , Zhong-Cheng Wu , Juan Cheng , Huafeng Li , Xun Chen

Unsupervised change detection techniques are generally constrained to two multi-band optical images acquired at different times through sensors sharing the same spatial and spectral resolution. This scenario is suitable for a straight…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-10 Vinicius Ferraris , Nicolas Dobigeon , Marie Chabert