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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

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

We propose an extended primal-dual algorithm framework for solving a general nonconvex optimization model. This work is motivated by image reconstruction problems in a class of nonlinear imaging, where the forward operator can be formulated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Yu Gao , Xiaochuan Pan , Chong Chen

This paper presents a concept of image pixel fusion of visual and thermal faces, which can significantly improve the overall performance of a face recognition system. Several factors affect face recognition performance including pose…

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

We propose a novel method for adjusting luminance for multi-exposure image fusion. For the adjustment, two novel scene segmentation approaches based on luminance distribution are also proposed. Multi-exposure image fusion is a method for…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

Image fusion is a crucial technique in the field of computer vision, and its goal is to generate high-quality fused images and improve the performance of downstream tasks. However, existing fusion methods struggle to balance these two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hui Li , Congcong Bian , Zeyang Zhang , Xiaoning Song , Xi Li , Xiao-Jun Wu

Most image deblurring methods assume an over-simplistic image formation model and as a result are sensitive to more realistic image degradations. We propose a novel variational framework, that explicitly handles pixel saturation, noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jérémy Anger , Mauricio Delbracio , Gabriele Facciolo

This article describes the implementation of the joint motion estimation and image reconstruction framework presented by Burger, Dirks and Sch\"onlieb and extends this framework to large-scale motion between consecutive image frames. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Hendrik Dirks

The problem of information fusion from multiple data-sets acquired by multimodal sensors has drawn significant research attention over the years. In this paper, we focus on a particular problem setting consisting of a physical phenomenon or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-21 Ori Katz , Ronen Talmon , Yu-Lun Lo , Hau-Tieng Wu

Appearance-based gaze estimation has been actively studied in recent years. However, its generalization performance for unseen head poses is still a significant limitation for existing methods. This work proposes a generalizable multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Yoichiro Hisadome , Tianyi Wu , Jiawei Qin , Yusuke Sugano

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

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 light image fusion aims to combine the strengths of both modalities to generate images that are rich in information and fulfill visual or computational requirements. This paper proposes an image fusion method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shuchen Sun , Ligen Shi , Chang Liu , Lina Wu , Jun Qiu

Multi-modality image fusion aims to combine different modalities to produce fused images that retain the complementary features of each modality, such as functional highlights and texture details. To leverage strong generative priors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Zixiang Zhao , Haowen Bai , Yuanzhi Zhu , Jiangshe Zhang , Shuang Xu , Yulun Zhang , Kai Zhang , Deyu Meng , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

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

Low-light images are not conducive to human observation and computer vision algorithms due to their low visibility. Although many image enhancement techniques have been proposed to solve this problem, existing methods inevitably introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Zhenqiang Ying , Ge Li , Wen Gao

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

Due to the lack of a definitive ground truth for the image fusion problem, the loss functions are structured based on evaluation metrics, such as the structural similarity index measure (SSIM). However, in doing so, a bias is introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Aytekin Erdogan , Erdem Akagündüz

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

Image fusion combines images from multiple domains into one image, containing complementary information from source domains. Existing methods take pixel intensity, texture and high-level vision task information as the standards to determine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Guang Yang , Jie Li , Xin Liu , Zhusi Zhong , Xinbo Gao