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The aim of multispectral image fusion is to combine object or scene features of images with different spectral characteristics to increase the perceptual quality. In this paper, we present a novel learning-based solution to image fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Ferhat Can Ataman , Gözde Bozdaği Akar

Accurately assessing image complexity (IC) is critical for computer vision, yet most existing methods rely solely on visual features and often neglect high-level semantic information, limiting their accuracy and generalization. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Shipeng Liu , Zhonglin Zhang , Dengfeng Chen , Liang Zhao

Recently, prompt learning has demonstrated remarkable success in adapting pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to various downstream tasks such as image classification. However, its application to the downstream Image-Text Retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yifan Wang , Tao Wang , Chenwei Tang , Caiyang Yu , Zhengqing Zang , Mengmi Zhang , Shudong Huang , Jiancheng Lv

In some scenarios, a single input image may not be enough to allow the object classification. In those cases, it is crucial to explore the complementary information extracted from images presenting the same object from multiple perspectives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Gabriel Machado , Keiller Nogueira , Matheus Barros Pereira , Jefersson Alex dos Santos

FastCAR is a novel task consolidation approach in Multi-Task Learning (MTL) for a classification and a regression task, despite the non-triviality of task heterogeneity with only a subtle correlation. The approach addresses the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Anoop Kini , Andreas Jansche , Timo Bernthaler , Gerhard Schneider

In this paper, we present a novel deep learning architecture for infrared and visible images fusion problem. In contrast to conventional convolutional networks, our encoding network is combined by convolutional layers, fusion layer and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu

The image-text retrieval task aims to retrieve relevant information from a given image or text. The main challenge is to unify multimodal representation and distinguish fine-grained differences across modalities, thereby finding similar…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Ziyu Gong , Chengcheng Mai , Yihua Huang

Existing deep learning methods for action recognition in videos require a large number of labeled videos for training, which is labor-intensive and time-consuming. For the same action, the knowledge learned from different media types, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yang Liu , Zhaoyang Lu , Jing Li , Tao Yang , Chao Yao

Multimodal pathological images are usually in clinical diagnosis, but computer vision-based multimodal image-assisted diagnosis faces challenges with modality fusion, especially in the absence of expert-annotated data. To achieve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Qinghua Lin , Guang-Hai Liu , Zuoyong Li , Yang Li , Yuting Jiang , Xiang Wu

Despite significant progress toward super resolving more realistic images by deeper convolutional neural networks (CNNs), reconstructing fine and natural textures still remains a challenging problem. Recent works on single image super…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Mohammad Saeed Rad , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Claudiu Musat , Urs-Viktor Marti , Max Basler , Hazim Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

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

Infrared and visible image fusion, as a hot topic in image processing and image enhancement, aims to produce fused images retaining the detail texture information in visible images and the thermal radiation information in infrared images. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Zixiang Zhao , Jiangshe Zhang , Shuang Xu , Kai Sun , Chunxia Zhang , Junmin Liu

Image clustering is an important and open-challenging task in computer vision. Although many methods have been proposed to solve the image clustering task, they only explore images and uncover clusters according to the image features, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shaotian Cai , Liping Qiu , Xiaojun Chen , Qin Zhang , Longteng Chen

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Yilun Cao , Hyungtae Lee , Heesung Kwon

Diffusion models have been widely used for conditional data cross-modal generation tasks such as text-to-image and text-to-video. However, state-of-the-art models still fail to align the generated visual concepts with high-level semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zizhao Hu , Shaochong Jia , Mohammad Rostami

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

The progress of composed image retrieval (CIR), a popular research direction in image retrieval, where a combined visual and textual query is used, is held back by the absence of high-quality training and evaluation data. We introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Bill Psomas , George Retsinas , Nikos Efthymiadis , Panagiotis Filntisis , Yannis Avrithis , Petros Maragos , Ondrej Chum , Giorgos Tolias

In this paper, we propose a novel learning method for image classification called Between-Class learning (BC learning). We generate between-class images by mixing two images belonging to different classes with a random ratio. We then input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Yuji Tokozume , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

Image fusion is a significant problem in many fields including digital photography, computational imaging and remote sensing, to name but a few. Recently, deep learning has emerged as an important tool for image fusion. This paper presents…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Shuang Xu , Zixiang Zhao , Yicheng Wang , Chunxia Zhang , Junmin Liu , Jiangshe Zhang

The characteristics of feature selection, nonlinear combination and multi-task auxiliary learning mechanism of the human visual perception system play an important role in real-world scenarios, but the research of image fusion theory based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Aiqing Fang , Xinbo Zhao , Jiaqi Yang , Yanning Zhang