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Image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple source images to produce a more informative and visually consistent representation, benefiting both human perception and downstream vision tasks. Despite recent…

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Existing multi-modal image fusion methods fail to address the compound degradations presented in source images, resulting in fusion images plagued by noise, color bias, improper exposure, \textit{etc}. Additionally, these methods often…

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Hyperspectral and multispectral image fusion allows us to overcome the hardware limitations of hyperspectral imaging systems inherent to their lower spatial resolution. Nevertheless, existing algorithms usually fail to consider realistic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Xiuheng Wang , Ricardo Augusto Borsoi , Cédric Richard , Jie Chen

Multi-modal depth estimation is one of the key challenges for endowing autonomous machines with robust robotic perception capabilities. There have been outstanding advances in the development of uni-modal depth estimation techniques based…

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Multimodal medical image fusion (MMIF) aims to integrate images from different modalities to produce a comprehensive image that enhances medical diagnosis by accurately depicting organ structures, tissue textures, and metabolic information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Tao Luo , Weihua Xu

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

In this paper, we introduce a novel fusion method that can enhance object detection performance by fusing decisions from two different types of computer vision tasks: object detection and image classification. In the proposed work, the…

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In this paper we present a technique for fusion of optical and thermal face images based on image pixel fusion approach. Out of several factors, which affect face recognition performance in case of visual images, illumination changes are a…

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Existing multi-focus image fusion (MFIF) methods often fail to preserve the uncertain transition region and detect small focus areas within large defocused regions accurately. To address this issue, this study proposes a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Xilai Li , Xiaosong Li , Haishu Tan , Jinyang Li

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

Nowadays it is prevalent to take features extracted from pre-trained deep learning models as image representations which have achieved promising classification performance. Existing methods usually consider either object-based features or…

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Image compression has been applied in the fields of image storage and video broadcasting. However, it's formidably tough to distinguish the subtle quality differences between those distorted images generated by different algorithms. In this…

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We propose a deep learning-based feature fusion approach for facial computing including face recognition as well as gender, race and age detection. Instead of training a single classifier on face images to classify them based on the…

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In this paper, we present a fast yet effective method for pixel-level scale-invariant image fusion in spatial domain based on the scale-space theory. Specifically, we propose a scale-invariant structure saliency selection scheme based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Yixiong Liang , Yuan Mao , Jiazhi Xia , Yao Xiang , Jianfeng Liu

Combining information from multi-view images is crucial to improve the performance and robustness of automated methods for disease diagnosis. However, due to the non-alignment characteristics of multi-view images, building correlation and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Di Liu , Yunhe Gao , Qilong Zhangli , Ligong Han , Xiaoxiao He , Zhaoyang Xia , Song Wen , Qi Chang , Zhennan Yan , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

Image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple input images acquired through various sources to synthesize a new fused image. Existing methods usually employ distinct constraint designs tailored to specific scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Bing Cao , Xingxin Xu , Pengfei Zhu , Qilong Wang , Qinghua Hu

In image fusion tasks, the absence of real fused images as supervision signals poses significant challenges for supervised learning. Existing deep learning methods typically address this issue either by designing handcrafted priors or by…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Minjie Deng , Yan Wei , An Wu , Yuncan Ouyang , Hao Zhai , Qianyao Peng

Traditional feature matching methods such as scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) usually use image intensity or gradient information to detect and describe feature points; however, both intensity and gradient are sensitive to nonlinear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Jiayuan Li , Qingwu Hu , Mingyao Ai

Visible and infrared image fusion (VIF) has attracted significant attention in recent years. Traditional VIF methods primarily focus on generating fused images with high visual quality, while recent advancements increasingly emphasize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zixian Zhao , Andrew Howes , Xingchen Zhang

Image fusion is famous as an alternative solution to generate one high-quality image from multiple images in addition to image restoration from a single degraded image. The essence of image fusion is to integrate complementary information…

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