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Thermal imaging has a variety of applications, from agricultural monitoring to building inspection to imaging under poor visibility, such as in low light, fog, and rain. However, reconstructing thermal scenes in 3D presents several…

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This study aims to learn a translation from visible to infrared imagery, bridging the domain gap between the two modalities so as to improve accuracy on downstream tasks including object detection. Previous approaches attempt to perform…

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Recovering the past from present observations is an intriguing challenge with potential applications in forensics and scene analysis. Thermal imaging, operating in the infrared range, provides access to otherwise invisible information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Kebin Contreras , Luis Toscano-Palomino , Mauro Dalla Mura , Jorge Bacca

Infrared imaging offers resilience against changing lighting conditions by capturing object temperatures. Yet, in few scenarios, its lack of visual details compared to daytime visible images, poses a significant challenge for human and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Anh-Dzung Doan , Vu Minh Hieu Phan , Surabhi Gupta , Markus Wagner , Tat-Jun Chin , Ian Reid

Night vision imaging is a technology that converts non-visible object to human eyes into visible image in night and other low light environments. However, the conventional night vision imaging can only directly produce grayscale image.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Deyang Duan , Yunjie Xia

Retaining spatial characteristics of panchromatic image and spectral information of multispectral bands is a critical issue in pansharpening. This paper proposes a pyramid based deep fusion framework that preserves spectral and spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-18 Hannan Adeel , Syed Sohaib Ali , Muhammad Mohsin Riaz , Syed Abdul Mannan Kirmani , Muhammad Imran Qureshi , Junaid Imtiaz

Illumination estimation is often used in mixed reality to re-render a scene from another point of view, to change the color/texture of an object, or to insert a virtual object consistently lit into a real video or photograph. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Grégoire Nieto , Salma Jiddi , Philippe Robert

RGBD images, combining high-resolution color and lower-resolution depth from various types of depth sensors, are increasingly common. One can significantly improve the resolution of depth maps by taking advantage of color information; deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Oleg Voynov , Alexey Artemov , Vage Egiazarian , Alexander Notchenko , Gleb Bobrovskikh , Denis Zorin , Evgeny Burnaev

Depth-guided multimodal fusion combines depth information from visible and infrared images, significantly enhancing the performance of 3D reconstruction and robotics applications. Existing thermal-visible image fusion mainly focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jinchang Zhang , Zijun Li , Guoyu Lu

Synthesis of visible spectrum faces from thermal facial imagery is a promising approach for heterogeneous face recognition; enabling existing face recognition software trained on visible imagery to be leveraged, and allowing human analysts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Benjamin S. Riggan , Nathaniel J. Short , Shuowen Hu

The resolution of optical imaging is limited by diffraction as well as detector noise. However, thermal imaging exhibits an additional unique phenomenon of ghosting which results in blurry and low-texture images. Here, we provide a detailed…

Multi-Object Tracking in thermal images is essential for surveillance systems, particularly in challenging environments where RGB cameras struggle due to low visibility or poor lighting conditions. Thermal sensors enhance recognition tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Duong Nguyen-Ngoc Tran , Long Hoang Pham , Chi Dai Tran , Quoc Pham-Nam Ho , Huy-Hung Nguyen , Jae Wook Jeon

This paper proposes a deep learning based method for colored transparent object matting from a single image. Existing approaches for transparent object matting often require multiple images and long processing times, which greatly hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Jamal Ahmed Rahim , Kwan-Yee Kenneth Wong

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

Autonomous systems rely on sensors to estimate the environment around them. However, cameras, LiDARs, and RADARs have their own limitations. In nighttime or degraded environments such as fog, mist, or dust, thermal cameras can provide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Shruti Bansal , Wenshan Wang , Yifei Liu , Parv Maheshwari

Decomposing a scene into its reflectance and shading is a challenge due to the lack of extensive ground-truth data for real-world scenes. We introduce a novel physics-based approach for intrinsic image decomposition using a pair of visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zeqing Yuan , Mani Ramanagopal , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , Srinivasa G. Narasimhan

Thermal imaging has numerous advantages over regular visible-range imaging since it performs well in low-light circumstances. Super-Resolution approaches can broaden their usefulness by replicating accurate high-resolution thermal pictures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Aditya Kasliwal , Pratinav Seth , Sriya Rallabandi , Sanchit Singhal

Image Super-Resolution (SR) provides a promising technique to enhance the image quality of low-resolution optical sensors, facilitating better-performing target detection and autonomous navigation in a wide range of robotics applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Fan Wang , Jiangxin Yang , Yanlong Cao , Yanpeng Cao , Michael Ying Yang

Handling various objects with different colors is a significant challenge for image colorization techniques. Thus, for complex real-world scenes, the existing image colorization algorithms often fail to maintain color consistency. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Subhankar Ghosh , Saumik Bhattacharya , Prasun Roy , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

Detecting people in images is a challenging problem. Differences in pose, clothing and lighting, along with other factors, cause a lot of variation in their appearance. To overcome these issues, we propose a system based on fused range and…

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