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Although remarkable progress has been made in recent years, current multi-exposure image fusion (MEF) research is still bounded by the lack of real ground truth, objective evaluation function, and robust fusion strategy. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Renshuai Liu , Chengyang Li , Haitao Cao , Yinglin Zheng , Ming Zeng , Xuan Cheng

This study attempts to provide explanations, descriptions and evaluations of some most popular and current combinations of description and descriptor frameworks, namely SIFT, SURF, MSER, and BRISK for keypoint extractors and SIFT, SURF,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Novanto Yudistira , Achmad Ridok , Ali Fauzi

Multi-Modal Image Fusion (MMIF) aims to integrate complementary image information from different modalities to produce informative images. Previous deep learning-based MMIF methods generally adopt Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hui Sun , Long Lv , Pingping Zhang , Tongdan Tang , Feng Tian , Weibing Sun , Huchuan Lu

This article introduces a benchmark designed to evaluate the capabilities of multimodal models in analyzing and interpreting images. The benchmark focuses on seven key visual aspects: main object, additional objects, background, detail,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Evgenii Evstafev

Multi-focus image fusion aims to generate an all-in-focus image from a sequence of partially focused input images. Existing fusion algorithms generally assume that, for every spatial location in the scene, there is at least one input image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Xinzhe Xie , Buyu Guo , Bolin Li , Shuangyan He , Yanzhen Gu , Qingyan Jiang , Peiliang Li

Image representations are often evaluated through disjointed, task-specific protocols, leading to a fragmented understanding of model capabilities. For instance, it is unclear whether an image embedding model adept at clustering images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Chenghao Xiao , Isaac Chung , Imene Kerboua , Jamie Stirling , Xin Zhang , Márton Kardos , Roman Solomatin , Noura Al Moubayed , Kenneth Enevoldsen , Niklas Muennighoff

Feature matching is one of the most fundamental and active research areas in computer vision. A comprehensive evaluation of feature matchers is necessary, since it would advance both the development of this field and also high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 JiaWang Bian , Ruihan Yang , Yun Liu , Le Zhang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ian Reid , WenHai Wu

Fairness has been a critical issue that affects the adoption of deep learning models in real practice. To improve model fairness, many existing methods have been proposed and evaluated to be effective in their own contexts. However, there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Junjie Yang , Jiajun Jiang , Zeyu Sun , Junjie Chen

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

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

Although multimodal fusion has made significant progress, its advancement is severely hindered by the lack of adequate evaluation benchmarks. Current fusion methods are typically evaluated on a small selection of public datasets, a limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Leyan Xue , Changqing Zhang , Kecheng Xue , Xiaohong Liu , Guangyu Wang , Zongbo Han

Visible images offer rich texture details, while infrared images emphasize salient targets. Fusing these complementary modalities enhances scene understanding, particularly for advanced vision tasks under challenging conditions. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Beining Xu , Junxian Li

Deep learning-based image fusion approaches have obtained wide attention in recent years, achieving promising performance in terms of visual perception. However, the fusion module in the current deep learning-based methods suffers from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Dongyu Rao , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tianyang Xu , Guoyang Chen

The federated learning paradigm is wellsuited for the field of medical image analysis, as it can effectively cope with machine learning on isolated multicenter data while protecting the privacy of participating parties. However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zhekai Zhou , Guibo Luo , Mingzhi Chen , Zhenyu Weng , Yuesheng Zhu

In a scenario where multi-modal cameras are operating together, the problem of working with non-aligned images cannot be avoided. Yet, existing image fusion algorithms rely heavily on strictly registered input image pairs to produce more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Zeyang Zhang , Hui Li , Tianyang Xu , Xiaojun Wu , Josef Kittler

Image fusion aims to synthesize a single high-quality image from a pair of inputs captured under challenging conditions, such as differing exposure levels or focal depths. A core challenge lies in effectively handling disparities in dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Mingwei Tang , Jiahao Nie , Guang Yang , Ziqing Cui , Jie Li

A multitude of work has shown that machine learning-based medical diagnosis systems can be biased against certain subgroups of people. This has motivated a growing number of bias mitigation algorithms that aim to address fairness issues in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yongshuo Zong , Yongxin Yang , Timothy Hospedales

We investigate the problem of identifying objects that have been added, removed, or moved between a pair of captures (images or videos) of the same scene at different times. Accurately identifying verifiable changes is extremely challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yuqun Wu , Chih-hao Lin , Henry Che , Aditi Tiwari , Chuhang Zou , Shenlong Wang , Derek Hoiem

Image fusion, a fundamental low-level vision task, aims to integrate multiple image sequences into a single output while preserving as much information as possible from the input. However, existing methods face several significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zihan Cao , Yu Zhong , Ziqi Wang , Liang-Jian Deng

In this work, a fast Bilateral Solver for Quality Estimation Based multi-focus Image Fusion method (BS-QEBIF) is proposed. The all-in-focus image is generated by pixel-wise summing up the multi-focus source images with their focus-levels…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Jingwei Guan , Yibo Chen , Wai-kuen Cham