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Image fusion is a fundamental and important task in computer vision, aiming to combine complementary information from different modalities to fuse images. In recent years, diffusion models have made significant developments in the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Zirui Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Tianwei Guan , Yuhan Zhou , Xingyuan Li , Minjing Dong , Jinyuan Liu

Image fusion aims to combine information from multiple source images into a single one with more comprehensive informational content. Deep learning-based image fusion algorithms face significant challenges, including the lack of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Haowen Bai , Zixiang Zhao , Jiangshe Zhang , Yichen Wu , Lilun Deng , Yukun Cui , Shuang Xu , Baisong Jiang

Image fusion seeks to seamlessly integrate foreground objects with background scenes, producing realistic and harmonious fused images. Unlike existing methods that directly insert objects into the background, adaptive and interactive fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Junjia Huang , Pengxiang Yan , Jiyang Liu , Jie Wu , Zhao Wang , Yitong Wang , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Computationally efficient, accurate, and privacy-preserving data storage and retrieval are among the key challenges faced by practical deployments of biometric identification systems worldwide. In this work, a method of protected indexing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Pawel Drozdowski , Fabian Stockhardt , Christian Rathgeb , Dailé Osorio-Roig , Christoph Busch

Nowadays it is prevalent to take features extracted from pre-trained deep learning models as image representations which have achieved promising classification performance. Existing methods usually consider either object-based features or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Chiranjibi Sitaula , Yong Xiang , Anish Basnet , Sunil Aryal , Xuequan Lu

Recent studies have demonstrated advantages of information fusion based on sparsity models for multimodal classification. Among several sparsity models, tree-structured sparsity provides a flexible framework for extraction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Soheil Bahrampour , Asok Ray , Nasser M. Nasrabadi , Kenneth W. Jenkins

In the compressive spectral imaging (CSI) framework, different architectures have been proposed to recover high-resolution spectral images from compressive measurements. Since CSI architectures compactly capture the relevant information of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Juan Marcos Ramirez , Jose Ignacio Martinez-Torre , Henry Arguello

Multi-frame methods improve monocular depth estimation over single-frame approaches by aggregating spatial-temporal information via feature matching. However, the spatial-temporal feature leads to accuracy degradation in dynamic scenes. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jiquan Zhong , Xiaolin Huang , Xiao Yu

In this paper we present a technique for fusion of optical and thermal face images based on image pixel fusion approach. Out of several factors, which affect face recognition performance in case of visual images, illumination changes are a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-07-06 Mrinal Kanti Bhowmik , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , Mita Nasipuri , Dipak Kumar Basu , Mahantapas Kundu

One of the challenges in Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is to reduce the semantic gaps between low-level features and high-level semantic concepts. In CBIR, the images are represented in the feature space and the performance of CBIR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Nouman Ali , Danish Ali Mazhar , Zeshan Iqbal , Rehan Ashraf , Jawad Ahmed , Farrukh Zeeshan Khan

Record fusion is the task of aggregating multiple records that correspond to the same real-world entity in a database. We can view record fusion as a machine learning problem where the goal is to predict the "correct" value for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Alireza Heidari , George Michalopoulos , Shrinu Kushagra , Ihab F. Ilyas , Theodoros Rekatsinas

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a cross-modal task that aims to retrieve target images from large-scale databases using a reference image and a modification text. Most existing methods rely on a single model to perform feature fusion and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yawei Cai , Jiapeng Mi , Nan Ji , Haotian Rong , Yawei Zhang , Zhangti Li , Wenbin Guo , Rensong Xie

Detecting and recognizing objects interacting with humans lie in the center of first-person (egocentric) daily activity recognition. However, due to noisy camera motion and frequent changes in viewpoint and scale, most of the previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Changzhi Luo , Bingbing Ni , Jun Yuan , Jianfeng Wang , Shuicheng Yan , Meng Wang

Image decomposition is a crucial subject in the field of image processing. It can extract salient features from the source image. We propose a new image decomposition method based on convolutional neural network. This method can be applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yu Fu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

Face image synthesis is gaining more attention in computer security due to concerns about its potential negative impacts, including those related to fake biometrics. Hence, building models that can detect the synthesized face images is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Roberto Leyva , Victor Sanchez , Gregory Epiphaniou , Carsten Maple

In contrast to comparing faces via single exemplars, matching sets of face images increases robustness and discrimination performance. Recent image set matching approaches typically measure similarities between subspaces or manifolds, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Conrad Sanderson , Mehrtash T. Harandi , Yongkang Wong , Brian C. Lovell

Current multispectral object detection methods often retain extraneous background or noise during feature fusion, limiting perceptual performance. To address this, we propose an innovative feature fusion framework based on cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jifeng Shen , Haibo Zhan , Xin Zuo , Heng Fan , Xiaohui Yuan , Jun Li , Wankou Yang

Image retrieval based on deep convolutional features has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in popular benchmarks. In this paper, we present a unified solution to address deep convolutional feature aggregation and image re-ranking by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Shanmin Pang , Jin Ma , Jianru Xue , Jihua Zhu , Vicente Ordonez

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

In Bag-of-Words (BoW) based image retrieval, the SIFT visual word has a low discriminative power, so false positive matches occur prevalently. Apart from the information loss during quantization, another cause is that the SIFT feature only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Liang Zheng , Shengjin Wang , Ziqiong Liu , Qi Tian