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Infrared and visible image fusion aims to generate synthetic images simultaneously containing salient features and rich texture details, which can be used to boost downstream tasks. However, existing fusion methods are suffering from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Hui Li , Yongbiao Xiao , Chunyang Cheng , Zhongwei Shen , Xiaoning Song

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

Image fusion technology is widely used to fuse the complementary information between multi-source remote sensing images. Inspired by the frontier of deep learning, this paper first proposes a heterogeneous-integrated framework based on a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Menghui Jiang , Huanfeng Shen , Jie Li , Liangpei Zhang

The existing deep learning fusion methods mainly concentrate on the convolutional neural networks, and few attempts are made with transformer. Meanwhile, the convolutional operation is a content-independent interaction between the image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Zhishe Wang , Yanlin Chen , Wenyu Shao , Hui Li , Lei Zhang

Image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple source images to produce a more informative and visually consistent representation, benefiting both human perception and downstream vision tasks. Despite recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingyuan Li , Songcheng Du , Yang Zou , HaoYuan Xu , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu

Infrared-visible image fusion (IVIF) is a critical task in computer vision, aimed at integrating the unique features of both infrared and visible spectra into a unified representation. Since 2018, the field has entered the deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jinyuan Liu , Guanyao Wu , Zhu Liu , Di Wang , Zhiying Jiang , Long Ma , Wei Zhong , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

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

With the rapid progression of deep learning technologies, multi-modality image fusion has become increasingly prevalent in object detection tasks. Despite its popularity, the inherent disparities in how different sources depict scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Xingyuan Li , Yang Zou , Jinyuan Liu , Zhiying Jiang , Long Ma , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Evaluation is essential in image fusion research, yet most existing metrics are directly borrowed from other vision tasks without proper adaptation. These traditional metrics, often based on complex image transformations, not only fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Chunyang Cheng , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tao Zhou , Hui Li , Zhangyong Tang , Josef Kittler

Infrared and visible images, as multi-modal image pairs, show significant differences in the expression of the same scene. The image fusion task is faced with two problems: one is to maintain the unique features between different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Zixuan Wang , Bin Sun

In this paper we propose a novel method for infrared and visible image fusion where we develop nest connection-based network and spatial/channel attention models. The nest connection-based network can preserve significant amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tariq Durrani

This paper presents a lightweight image fusion algorithm specifically designed for merging visible light and infrared images, with an emphasis on balancing performance and efficiency. The proposed method enhances the generator in a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Zhizhong Wu , Jiajing Chen , LiangHao Tan , Hao Gong , Zhou Yuru , Ge Shi

Deep learning based fusion methods have been achieving promising performance in image fusion tasks. This is attributed to the network architecture that plays a very important role in the fusion process. However, in general, it is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hui Li , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Jiwen Lu , Josef Kittler

The general aim of multi-focus image fusion is to gather focused regions of different images to generate a unique all-in-focus fused image. Deep learning based methods become the mainstream of image fusion by virtue of its powerful feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Boyuan Ma , Xiang Yin , Di Wu , Xiaojuan Ban

Conventional infrared and visible image fusion(IVIF) methods often assume high-quality inputs, neglecting real-world degradations such as low-light and noise, which limits their practical applicability. To address this, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Tianpei Zhang , Jufeng Zhao , Yiming Zhu , Guangmang Cui , Yuxin Jing

A significant number of researchers have applied deep learning methods to image fusion. However, most works require a large amount of training data or depend on pre-trained models or frameworks to capture features from source images. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Xudong Ma , Paul Hill , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Alin Achim

Image fusion integrates essential information from multiple images into a single composite, enhancing structures, textures, and refining imperfections. Existing methods predominantly focus on pixel-level and semantic visual features for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zixiang Zhao , Lilun Deng , Haowen Bai , Yukun Cui , Zhipeng Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Haotong Qin , Dongdong Chen , Jiangshe Zhang , Peng Wang , Luc Van Gool

In this work, we propose a novel unsupervised deep learning model to address multi-focus image fusion problem. First, we train an encoder-decoder network in unsupervised manner to acquire deep feature of input images. And then we utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Boyuan Ma , Xiaojuan Ban , Haiyou Huang , Yu Zhu

Multi-focus color image fusion refers to integrating multiple partially focused color images to create a single all-in-focus color image. However, existing methods struggle with complex real-world scenarios due to limitations in handling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Weihua Yang , Yicong Zhou

Face recognition has already been well studied under the visible light and the infrared,in both intra-spectral and cross-spectral cases. However, how to fuse different light bands, i.e., hyperspectral face recognition, is still an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Zhicheng Cao , Xi Cen , Liaojun Pang