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In this work, we propose a novel unsupervised deep learning model to address multi-focus image fusion problem. First, we train an encoder-decoder network in unsupervised manner to acquire deep feature of input images. And then we utilize…

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Infrared and visible image fusion targets to provide an informative image by combining complementary information from different sensors. Existing learning-based fusion approaches attempt to construct various loss functions to preserve…

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Image decomposition is crucial for many image processing tasks, as it allows to extract salient features from source images. A good image decomposition method could lead to a better performance, especially in image fusion tasks. We propose…

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It is a challenging task to extract the best of both worlds by combining the spatial characteristics of a visible image and the spectral content of an infrared image. In this work, we propose a spatially constrained adversarial autoencoder…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-05 Snigdha Bhagat , S. D. Joshi , Brejesh Lall

Infrared and visible image fusion integrates information from distinct spectral bands to enhance image quality by leveraging the strengths and mitigating the limitations of each modality. Existing approaches typically treat image fusion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jinyuan Liu , Bowei Zhang , Qingyun Mei , Xingyuan Li , Yang Zou , Zhiying Jiang , Long Ma , Risheng Liu , Xin Fan

In extreme scenarios such as nighttime or low-visibility environments, achieving reliable perception is critical for applications like autonomous driving, robotics, and surveillance. Multi-modality image fusion, particularly integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yuchen Guo , Ruoxiang Xu , Rongcheng Li , Weifeng Su

In image fusion, images obtained from different sensors are fused to generate a single image with enhanced information. In recent years, state-of-the-art methods have adopted Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) to encode meaningful features…

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Ultra-high-definition (UHD) image restoration often faces computational bottlenecks and information loss due to its extremely high resolution. Existing studies based on Variational Autoencoders (VAE) improve efficiency by transferring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Yidi Liu , Dong Li , Yuxin Ma , Jie Huang , Wenlong Zhang , Xueyang Fu , Zheng-jun Zha

Image fusion is a technique to integrate information from multiple source images with complementary information to improve the richness of a single image. Due to insufficient task-specific training data and corresponding ground truth, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Linhao Qu , Shaolei Liu , Manning Wang , Shiman Li , Siqi Yin , Qin Qiao , Zhijian Song

The fusion of input and guidance images that have a tradeoff in their information (e.g., hyperspectral and RGB image fusion or pansharpening) can be interpreted as one general problem. However, previous studies applied a task-specific…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-24 Tatsumi Uezato , Danfeng Hong , Naoto Yokoya , Wei He

Multispectral image fusion is a computer vision process that is essential to remote sensing. For applications such as dehazing and object detection, there is a need to offer solutions that can perform in real-time on any type of scene.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Nati Ofir , Jean-Christophe Nebel

Since it is usually difficult to capture an all-in-focus image of a 3D scene directly, various multi-focus image fusion methods are employed to generate it from several images focusing at different depths. However, the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Haoyu Ma , Juncheng Zhang , Shaojun Liu , Qingmin Liao

Infrared-visible image fusion aims to integrate infrared and visible information into a single fused image. Existing 2D fusion methods focus on fusing images from fixed camera viewpoints, neglecting a comprehensive understanding of complex…

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We propose an unsupervised image fusion architecture for multiple application scenarios based on the combination of multi-scale discrete wavelet transform through regional energy and deep learning. To our best knowledge, this is the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Shaolei Liu , Manning Wang , Zhijian Song

Face recognition has already been well studied under the visible light and the infrared,in both intra-spectral and cross-spectral cases. However, how to fuse different light bands, i.e., hyperspectral face recognition, is still an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Zhicheng Cao , Xi Cen , Liaojun Pang

Image Fusion, a technique which combines complimentary information from different images of the same scene so that the fused image is more suitable for segmentation, feature extraction, object recognition and Human Visual System. In this…

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Ultrasonic imaging is being used to obtain information about the acoustic properties of a medium by emitting waves into it and recording their interaction using ultrasonic transducer arrays. The Delay-And-Sum (DAS) algorithm forms images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Georgios Pilikos , Lars Horchens , Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix Lucka

Evaluation is essential in image fusion research, yet most existing metrics are directly borrowed from other vision tasks without proper adaptation. These traditional metrics, often based on complex image transformations, not only fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Chunyang Cheng , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tao Zhou , Hui Li , Zhangyong Tang , Josef Kittler

Coupled tensor approximation has recently emerged as a promising approach for the fusion of hyperspectral and multispectral images, reconciling state of the art performance with strong theoretical guarantees. However, tensor-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Ricardo Augusto Borsoi , Clémence Prévost , Konstantin Usevich , David Brie , José Carlos Moreira Bermudez , Cédric Richard

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,…

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