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This paper proposes to use Fast Fourier Transformation-based U-Net (a refined fully convolutional networks) and perform image convolution in neural networks. Leveraging the Fast Fourier Transformation, it reduces the image convolution costs…

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Denosing diffusion model, as a generative model, has received a lot of attention in the field of image generation recently, thanks to its powerful generation capability. However, diffusion models have not yet received sufficient research in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 ZiHan Cao , ShiQi Cao , Xiao Wu , JunMing Hou , Ran Ran , Liang-Jian Deng

Image restoration is a challenging ill-posed problem which also has been a long-standing issue. In the past few years, the convolution neural networks (CNNs) almost dominated the computer vision and had achieved considerable success in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Chi-Mao Fan , Tsung-Jung Liu , Kuan-Hsien Liu

Infrared and visible image fusion aims to extract complementary features to synthesize a single fused image. Many methods employ convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to extract local features due to its translation invariance and locality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Jing Li , Lu Bai , Bin Yang , Chang Li , Lingfei Ma , Edwin R. Hancock

Multi-modality image fusion (MMIF) combines complementary information from different image modalities to provide a comprehensive and objective interpretation of scenes. However, existing fusion methods cannot resist different weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xilai Li , Wuyang Liu , Xiaosong Li , Fuqiang Zhou , Huafeng Li , Feiping Nie

Single image deraining is a crucial problem because rain severely degenerates the visibility of images and affects the performance of computer vision tasks like outdoor surveillance systems and intelligent vehicles. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Hao-Hsiang Yang , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

This research focuses on the discovery and localization of hidden objects in the wild and serves unmanned systems. Through empirical analysis, infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) enables hard-to-find objects apparent, whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Di Wang , Jinyuan Liu , Risheng Liu , Xin Fan

Infrared and visible image fusion aims to utilize the complementary information from two modalities to generate fused images with prominent targets and rich texture details. Most existing algorithms only perform pixel-level or feature-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Kun Hu , Qingle Zhang , Maoxun Yuan , Yitian Zhang

Multimodal fusion detection always places high demands on the imaging system and image pre-processing, while either a high-quality pre-registration system or image registration processing is costly. Unfortunately, the existing fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yinghan Guan , Haoran Dai , Zekuan Yu , Shouyu Wang , Yuanjie Gu

The existing deep learning fusion methods mainly concentrate on the convolutional neural networks, and few attempts are made with transformer. Meanwhile, the convolutional operation is a content-independent interaction between the image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Zhishe Wang , Yanlin Chen , Wenyu Shao , Hui Li , Lei Zhang

Deep unfolding networks (DUNs) are widely employed in illumination degradation image restoration (IDIR) to merge the interpretability of model-based approaches with the generalization of learning-based methods. However, the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Chunming He , Rihan Zhang , Fengyang Xiao , Chengyu Fang , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Sina Farsiu

Models for image representation learning are typically designed for either recognition or generation. Various forms of contrastive learning help models learn to convert images to embeddings that are useful for classification, detection, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Matthew Gwilliam , Xiao Wang , Xuefeng Hu , Zhenheng Yang

We design a novel network architecture for learning discriminative image models that are employed to efficiently tackle the problem of grayscale and color image denoising. Based on the proposed architecture, we introduce two different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

Sensor fusion has become a popular topic in robotics. However, conventional fusion methods encounter many difficulties, such as data representation differences, sensor variations, and extrinsic calibration. For example, the calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Shuyi Zhou , Shuxiang Xie , Ryoichi Ishikawa , Ken Sakurada , Masaki Onishi , Takeshi Oishi

In the image fusion field, the design of deep learning-based fusion methods is far from routine. It is invariably fusion-task specific and requires a careful consideration. The most difficult part of the design is to choose an appropriate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

In this paper we propose a novel method for infrared and visible image fusion where we develop nest connection-based network and spatial/channel attention models. The nest connection-based network can preserve significant amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tariq Durrani

Despite the significant progress in image denoising, it is still challenging to restore fine-scale details while removing noise, especially in extremely low-light environments. Leveraging near-infrared (NIR) images to assist visible RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Rongjian Xu , Zhilu Zhang , Renlong Wu , Wangmeng Zuo

In recent literature there are plenty of works that combine handcrafted and learnable regularizers to solve inverse imaging problems. While this hybrid approach has demonstrated promising results, the motivation for combining handcrafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Alexandros Gkillas , Dimitris Ampeliotis , Kostas Berberidis

Image fusion helps in merging two or more images to construct a more informative single fused image. Recently, unsupervised learning based convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been utilized for different types of image fusion tasks such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Nishant Kumar , Stefan Gumhold

Infrared-visible image fusion methods aim at generating fused images with good visual quality and also facilitate the performance of high-level tasks. Indeed, existing semantic-driven methods have considered semantic information injection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Liying Wang , Xiaoli Zhang , Chuanmin Jia , Siwei Ma