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Image feature matching, a foundational task in computer vision, remains challenging for multimodal image applications, often necessitating intricate training on specific datasets. In this paper, we introduce a Unified Feature Matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yide Di , Yun Liao , Hao Zhou , Kaijun Zhu , Qing Duan , Junhui Liu , Mingyu Lu

Matching two images while estimating their relative geometry is a key step in many computer vision applications. For decades, a well-established pipeline, consisting of SIFT, RANSAC, and 8-point algorithm, has been used for this task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Jia-Wang Bian , Yu-Huan Wu , Ji Zhao , Yun Liu , Le Zhang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ian Reid

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

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have led to impressive progress across various benchmarks. However, their capability in understanding infrared images remains unexplored. To address this gap, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Tao Zhang , Yuyang Hong , Yang Xia , Kun Ding , Zeyu Zhang , Ying Wang , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Multi-focus image fusion (MFIF) is a crucial technique in image processing, with a key challenge being the generation of decision maps with precise boundaries. However, traditional methods based on heuristic rules and deep learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Bo Li , Yunkuo Lei , Tingting Bao , Hang Yan , Yaxian Wang , Weiping Fu , Lingling Zhang , Jun Liu

The rapid progress in deep generative models has led to the creation of incredibly realistic synthetic images that are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from real-world data. The widespread use of Variational Models, Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Anant Mehta , Bryant McArthur , Nagarjuna Kolloju , Zhengzhong Tu

Multi-Modal Image Fusion (MMIF) aims to combine images from different modalities to produce fused images, retaining texture details and preserving significant information. Recently, some MMIF methods incorporate frequency domain information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yixin Zhu , Long Lv , Pingping Zhang , Xuehu Liu , Tongdan Tang , Feng Tian , Weibing Sun , Huchuan Lu

Modern multi-object tracking (MOT) system usually involves separated modules, such as motion model for location and appearance model for data association. However, the compatible problems within both motion and appearance models are always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Piao Huang , Shoudong Han , Jun Zhao , Donghaisheng Liu , Hongwei Wang , En Yu , Alex ChiChung Kot

Diffusion models have achieved impressive performance on multi-focus image fusion (MFIF). However, a key challenge in applying diffusion models to the ill-posed MFIF problem is that defocus blur can make common symmetric geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bo Li , Tingting Bao , Lingling Zhang , Weiping Fu , Yaxian Wang , Jun Liu

The general aim of multi-focus image fusion is to gather focused regions of different images to generate a unique all-in-focus fused image. Deep learning based methods become the mainstream of image fusion by virtue of its powerful feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Boyuan Ma , Xiang Yin , Di Wu , Xiaojuan Ban

Optical sensor applications have become popular through digital transformation. Linking observed data to real-world locations and combining different image sensors is essential to make the applications practical and efficient. However, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Kana Kurata , Hitoshi Niigaki , Xiaojun Wu , Ryuichi Tanida

Standardized benchmarks are crucial for the majority of computer vision applications. Although leaderboards and ranking tables should not be over-claimed, benchmarks often provide the most objective measure of performance and are therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Laura Leal-Taixé , Anton Milan , Konrad Schindler , Daniel Cremers , Ian Reid , Stefan Roth

Multimodal medical image fusion plays an instrumental role in several areas of medical image processing, particularly in disease recognition and tumor detection. Traditional fusion methods tend to process each modality independently before…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Lin Liu , Xinxin Fan , Chulong Zhang , Jingjing Dai , Yaoqin Xie , Xiaokun Liang

Infrared-visible image fusion (IVIF) is a critical task in computer vision, aimed at integrating the unique features of both infrared and visible spectra into a unified representation. Since 2018, the field has entered the deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jinyuan Liu , Guanyao Wu , Zhu Liu , Di Wang , Zhiying Jiang , Long Ma , Wei Zhong , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

The most significant problem may be undesirable effects for the spectral signatures of fused images as well as the benefits of using fused images mostly compared to their source images were acquired at the same time by one sensor. They may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-08-27 Firouz Abdullah Al-Wassai , N. V. Kalyankar

Multimodal medical image fusion (MMIF) extracts the most meaningful information from multiple source images, enabling a more comprehensive and accurate diagnosis. Achieving high-quality fusion results requires a careful balance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Dan He , Weisheng Li , Guofen Wang , Yuping Huang , Shiqiang Liu

The proliferation of sophisticated deepfake technology poses significant challenges to digital security and authenticity. Detecting these forgeries, especially across a wide spectrum of manipulation techniques, requires robust and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Kohou Wang , Huan Hu , Xiang Liu , Zezhou Chen , Ping Chen , Zhaoxiang Liu , Shiguo Lian

Capturing an all-in-focus image with a single camera is difficult since the depth of field of the camera is usually limited. An alternative method to obtain the all-in-focus image is to fuse several images focusing at different depths.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Haoyu Ma , Qingmin Liao , Juncheng Zhang , Shaojun Liu , Jing-Hao Xue

With the increasing maturity of the text-to-image and image-to-image generative models, AI-generated images (AGIs) have shown great application potential in advertisement, entertainment, education, social media, etc. Although remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Tianwei Zhou , Songbai Tan , Wei Zhou , Yu Luo , Yuan-Gen Wang , Guanghui Yue

A significant number of researchers have applied deep learning methods to image fusion. However, most works require a large amount of training data or depend on pre-trained models or frameworks to capture features from source images. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Xudong Ma , Paul Hill , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Alin Achim