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Medical images play an important role in clinical applications. Multimodal medical images could provide rich information about patients for physicians to diagnose. The image fusion technique is able to synthesize complementary information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Meng Zhou , Xiaolan Xu , Yuxuan Zhang

The characteristics of feature selection, nonlinear combination and multi-task auxiliary learning mechanism of the human visual perception system play an important role in real-world scenarios, but the research of image fusion theory based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Aiqing Fang , Xinbo Zhao , Jiaqi Yang , Yanning Zhang

We address the multi-focus image fusion problem, where multiple images captured with different focal settings are to be fused into an all-in-focus image of higher quality. Algorithms for this problem necessarily admit the source image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Farshad G. Veshki , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

The human visual perception system has strong robustness in image fusion. This robustness is based on human visual perception system's characteristics of feature selection and non-linear fusion of different features. In order to simulate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Aiqing Fang , Xinbo Zhao , Jiaqi Yang , Yanning Zhang

In this paper, we present a novel deep learning architecture for infrared and visible images fusion problem. In contrast to conventional convolutional networks, our encoding network is combined by convolutional layers, fusion layer and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu

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

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

Hyperspectral and multispectral image fusion allows us to overcome the hardware limitations of hyperspectral imaging systems inherent to their lower spatial resolution. Nevertheless, existing algorithms usually fail to consider realistic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Xiuheng Wang , Ricardo Augusto Borsoi , Cédric Richard , Jie Chen

This paper proposes a novel multimodal fusion approach, aiming to produce best possible decisions by integrating information coming from multiple media. While most of the past multimodal approaches either work by projecting the features of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Valentin Vielzeuf , Alexis Lechervy , Stéphane Pateux , Frédéric Jurie

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

Current multi-modal image fusion methods typically rely on task-specific models, leading to high training costs and limited scalability. While generative methods provide a unified modeling perspective, they often suffer from slow inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Huayi Zhu , Xiu Shu , Youqiang Xiong , Qiao Liu , Rui Chen , Di Yuan , Xiaojun Chang , Zhenyu He

Image fusion seeks to integrate complementary information from multiple sources into a single, superior image. While traditional methods are fast, they lack adaptability and performance. Conversely, deep learning approaches achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ran Zhang , Xuanhua He , Liu Liu

Hyperspectral imaging can help better understand the characteristics of different materials, compared with traditional image systems. However, only high-resolution multispectral (HrMS) and low-resolution hyperspectral (LrHS) images can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Qi Xie , Minghao Zhou , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng , Wangmeng Zuo , Zongben Xu

Infrared and visible image fusion aims at generating a fused image containing the intensity and detail information of source images, and the key issue is effectively measuring and integrating the complementary information of multi-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Guang Yang , Jie Li , Hanxiao Lei , Xinbo Gao

Neural networks are rapidly gaining popularity in scientific research, but training the models is often very time-consuming. Particularly when the training data samples are large high-dimensional arrays, efficient training methodologies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Kewei Wang , Claire Songhyun Lee , Sunwoo Lee , Vishu Gupta , Jan Balewski , Alex Sim , Peter Nugent , Ankit Agrawal , Alok Choudhary , Kesheng Wu , Wei-keng Liao

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

Multifocus image fusion is an effective way to overcome the limitation of optical lenses. Many existing methods obtain fused results by generating decision maps. However, such methods often assume that the focused areas of the two source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Huafeng Li , Dan Wang , Yuxin Huang , Yafei Zhang , Zhengtao Yu

Multi-modal image fusion synthesizes information from multiple sources into a single image, facilitating downstream tasks such as semantic segmentation. Current approaches primarily focus on acquiring informative fusion images at the visual…

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

Capturing an all-in-focus image with a single camera is difficult since the depth of field of the camera is usually limited. An alternative method to obtain the all-in-focus image is to fuse several images focusing at different depths.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Haoyu Ma , Qingmin Liao , Juncheng Zhang , Shaojun Liu , Jing-Hao Xue

Action recognition is an important yet challenging task in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a novel deep-based framework for action recognition, which improves the recognition accuracy by: 1) deriving more precise features for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Weiyao Lin , Yang Mi , Jianxin Wu , Ke Lu , Hongkai Xiong