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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

It is now generally accepted that Euclidean-based metrics may not always adequately represent the subjective judgement of a human observer. As a result, many image processing methodologies have been recently extended to take advantage of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-10 D. Otero , D. La Torre , O. Michailovich , E. R. Vrscay

Various and different methods can be used to produce high-resolution multispectral images from high-resolution panchromatic image (PAN) and low-resolution multispectral images (MS), mostly on the pixel level. The Quality of image fusion is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-07-24 Firouz Abdullah Al-Wassai , Dr. N. V. Kalyankar

Image analysis using more than one modality (i.e. multi-modal) has been increasingly applied in the field of biomedical imaging. One of the challenges in performing the multimodal analysis is that there exist multiple schemes for fusing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Zhe Guo , Xiang Li , Heng Huang , Ning Guo , Quanzheng Li

Assessing the similarity of two images is a complex task that attracts significant efforts in the image processing community. The widely used Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM) addresses this problem by quantifying a perceptual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Francesco Marchetti , Gabriele Santin

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

This paper presents PointSSIM, a novel low-dimensional image-to-image comparison metric that is resolution invariant. Drawing inspiration from the structural similarity index measure and mathematical morphology, PointSSIM enables robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Oscar Ovanger , Ragnar Hauge , Jacob Skauvold , Michael J. Pyrcz , Jo Eidsvik

In this paper, we propose a similarity-aware fusion network (SAFNet) to adaptively fuse 2D images and 3D point clouds for 3D semantic segmentation. Existing fusion-based methods achieve remarkable performances by integrating information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Linqing Zhao , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Image fusion produces a single fused image from a set of input images. A new method for image fusion is proposed based on Weighted Average Merging Method (WAMM) in the NonSubsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) domain. A performance analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Manu V T , Philomina Simon

This report presents the results of a proposed multi-scale fusion-based single image de-hazing algorithm, which can also be used for underwater image enhancement. Furthermore, the algorithm was designed for very fast operation and minimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Uche A. Nnolim

Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Fusion (MHIF) aims to reconstruct high-resolution images by integrating low-resolution hyperspectral images (LRHSI) and high-resolution multispectral images (HRMSI). However, existing methods face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Baisong Li

Multi-Focus Image Fusion seeks to improve the quality of an acquired burst of images with different focus planes. For solving the task, an activity level measurement and a fusion rule are typically established to select and fuse the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Fidel Alejandro Guerrero Peña , Pedro Diamel Marrero Fernández , Tsang Ing Ren , Germano Crispim Vasconcelos , Alexandre Cunha

Medical image segmentation demands an efficient and robust segmentation algorithm against noise. The conventional fuzzy c-means algorithm is an efficient clustering algorithm that is used in medical image segmentation. But FCM is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-13 S. Zulaikha Beevi , M. Mohammed Sathik , K. Senthamaraikannan

Until now, of highest relevance for remote sensing data processing and analysis have been techniques for pixel level image fusion. So, This paper attempts to undertake the study of Feature-Level based image fusion. For this purpose, feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Firouz Abdullah Al-Wassai , N. V. Kalyankar , Ali A. Al-Zaky

Multi-focus is a technique of focusing on different aspects of a particular object or scene. Wireless Visual Sensor Networks (WVSN) use multi-focus image fusion, which combines two or more images to create a more accurate output image that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Krishnendu K. S.

Due to its inferior characteristics, an observed (noisy) image's direct use gives rise to poor segmentation results. Intuitively, using its noise-free image can favorably impact image segmentation. Hence, the accurate estimation of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Cong Wang , Witold Pedrycz , ZhiWu Li , MengChu Zhou

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

In this paper, we propose a novel method for image fusion with a high-resolution panchromatic image and a low-resolution multispectral image at the same geographical location. The fusion is formulated as a convex optimization problem which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Chen Chen , Yeqing Li , Wei Liu , Junzhou Huang

Multimodal image fusion aims to combine relevant information from images acquired with different sensors. In medical imaging, fused images play an essential role in both standard and automated diagnosis. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Farshad G. Veshki , Nora Ouzir , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Esa Ollila

In this paper we introduce a fully end-to-end approach for multi-spectral image registration and fusion. Our method for fusion combines images from different spectral channels into a single fused image by different approaches for low and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Nati Ofir , Shai Silberstein , Dani Rozenbaum , Yosi Keller , Sharon Duvdevani Bar