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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

It is necessary for clinicians to comprehensively analyze patient information from different sources. Medical image fusion is a promising approach to providing overall information from medical images of different modalities. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Fanda Fan , Yunyou Huang , Lei Wang , Xingwang Xiong , Zihan Jiang , Zhifei Zhang , Jianfeng Zhan

Cross-modality fusing complementary information of multispectral remote sensing image pairs can improve the perception ability of detection algorithms, making them more robust and reliable for a wider range of applications, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Qingyun Fang , Zhaokui Wang

Image segmentation is a complex mathematical problem, especially for images that contain intensity inhomogeneity and tightly packed objects with missing boundaries in between. For instance, Magnetic Resonance (MR) muscle images often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Paramjyoti Mohapatra , Richard Lartey , Weihong Guo , Michael Judkovich , Xiaojuan Li

Features from multiple scales can greatly benefit the semantic edge detection task if they are well fused. However, the prevalent semantic edge detection methods apply a fixed weight fusion strategy where images with different semantics are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Yuan Hu , Yunpeng Chen , Xiang Li , Jiashi Feng

Multi-modal depth estimation is one of the key challenges for endowing autonomous machines with robust robotic perception capabilities. There have been outstanding advances in the development of uni-modal depth estimation techniques based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Johan S. Obando-Ceron , Victor Romero-Cano , Sildomar Monteiro

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

Remote sensing (RS) images are important to monitor and survey earth at varying spatial scales. Continuous observations from various RS sources complement single observations to improve applications. Fusion into single or multiple images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Hessah Albanwan

This paper proposes a new end-to-end trainable model for lossy image compression, which includes several novel components. The method incorporates 1) an adequate perceptual similarity metric; 2) saliency in the images; 3) a hierarchical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Yash Patel , Srikar Appalaraju , R. Manmatha

Size uniformity is one of the main criteria of superpixel methods. But size uniformity rarely conforms to the varying content of an image. The chosen size of the superpixels therefore represents a compromise - how to obtain the fewest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Radhakrishna Achanta , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Pascal Fua , Sabine Süsstrunk

Multi-focus image fusion (MFIF) aims to yield an all-focused image from multiple partially focused inputs, which is crucial in applications cover sur-veillance, microscopy, and computational photography. However, existing methods struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haoyu Li , XiaoSong Li

Quantitative measurement of crystals in high-resolution images allows for important insights into underlying material characteristics. Deep learning has shown great progress in vision-based automatic crystal size measurement, but current…

Underwater images suffer from severe degradations, including color distortions, reduced visibility, and loss of structural details due to wavelength-dependent attenuation and scattering. Existing enhancement methods primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jaskaran Singh Walia , Shravan Venkatraman , Pavithra LK

Due to the instability and limitations of unimodal biometric systems, multimodal systems have attracted more and more attention from researchers. However, how to exploit the independent and complementary information between different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jian Guo , Jiaxiang Tu , Hengyi Ren , Chong Han , Lijuan Sun

Segmentation partitions an image into different regions containing pixels with similar attributes. A standard non-contextual variant of Fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm (FCM), considering its simplicity is generally used in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Narayana Reddy A , Ranjita Das

Multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential in clinics for comprehensive diagnosis and surgical planning. Nevertheless, the segmentation of multi-modal MR images tends to be time-consuming and challenging. Convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-07 Cheng Li , Hui Sun , Zaiyi Liu , Meiyun Wang , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Medical Hyperspectral Imaging (MHSI) has emerged as a promising tool for enhanced disease diagnosis, particularly in computational pathology, offering rich spectral information that aids in identifying subtle biochemical properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Qing Zhang , Guoquan Pei , Yan Wang

Multimodal medical image fusion plays a crucial role in medical diagnosis by integrating complementary information from different modalities to enhance image readability and clinical applicability. However, existing methods mainly follow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haozhe Xiang , Han Zhang , Yu Cheng , Xiongwen Quan , Wanwan Huang

Image harmonization is a crucial technique in image composition that aims to seamlessly match the background by adjusting the foreground of composite images. Current methods adopt either global-level or pixel-level feature matching.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Haoxing Chen , Yaohui Li , Zhangxuan Gu , Zhuoer Xu , Jun Lan , Huaxiong Li

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