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Due to the ever-growing diversity of the data source, multi-modality feature learning has attracted more and more attention. However, most of these methods are designed by jointly learning feature representation from multi-modalities that…

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Semantic segmentation across arbitrary sensor modalities faces significant challenges due to diverse sensor characteristics, and the traditional configurations for this task result in redundant development efforts. We address these…

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Radiotherapists require accurate registration of MR/CT images to effectively use information from both modalities. In a typical registration pipeline, rigid or affine transformations are applied to roughly align the fixed and moving images…

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Remote sensing shadow removal, which aims to recover contaminated surface information, is tricky since shadows typically display overwhelmingly low illumination intensities. In contrast, the infrared image is robust toward significant light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Kaichen Chi , Wei Jing , Junjie Li , Qiang Li , Qi Wang

Pathologists need to combine information from differently stained pathology slices for accurate diagnosis. Deformable image registration is a necessary technique for fusing multi-modal pathology slices. This paper proposes a hybrid deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Chulong Zhang , Yuming Jiang , Na Li , Zhicheng Zhang , Md Tauhidul Islam , Jingjing Dai , Lin Liu , Wenfeng He , Wenjian Qin , Jing Xiong , Yaoqin Xie , Xiaokun Liang

We propose a variational regularisation approach for the problem of template-based image reconstruction from indirect, noisy measurements as given, for instance, in X-ray computed tomography. An image is reconstructed from such measurements…

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Infrared cameras are often utilized to enhance the night vision since the visible light cameras exhibit inferior efficacy without sufficient illumination. However, infrared data possesses inadequate color contrast and representation ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zhenjie Yu , Kai Chen , Shuang Li , Bingfeng Han , Chi Harold Liu , Shuigen Wang

People can recognize scenes across many different modalities beyond natural images. In this paper, we investigate how to learn cross-modal scene representations that transfer across modalities. To study this problem, we introduce a new…

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Feature matching is a cornerstone task in computer vision, essential for applications such as image retrieval, stereo matching, 3D reconstruction, and SLAM. This survey comprehensively reviews modality-based feature matching, exploring…

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Multimodal MR-US registration is critical for prostate cancer diagnosis. However, this task remains challenging due to significant modality discrepancies. Existing methods often fail to align critical boundaries while being overly sensitive…

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Visible-to-thermal face image matching is a challenging variate of cross-modality recognition. The challenge lies in the large modality gap and low correlation between visible and thermal modalities. Existing approaches employ image…

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In photogrammetry, accurately fusing infrared (IR) and visible (VIS) spectra while preserving the geometric fidelity of visible features and incorporating thermal radiation is a significant challenge, particularly under extreme conditions.…

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Visible images have been widely used for motion estimation. Thermal images, in contrast, are more challenging to be used in motion estimation since they typically have lower resolution, less texture, and more noise. In this paper, a novel…

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Robust and accurate 2D/3D registration, which aligns preoperative models with intraoperative images of the same anatomy, is crucial for successful interventional navigation. To mitigate the challenge of a limited field of view in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yuxin Cui , Rui Song , Yibin Li , Max Q. -H. Meng , Zhe Min

In recent years, the research community has shown a lot of interest to panoramic images that offer a 360-degree directional perspective. Multiple data modalities can be fed, and complimentary characteristics can be utilized for more robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Suresh Guttikonda , Jason Rambach

Multi-modal 3D object understanding has gained significant attention, yet current approaches often assume complete data availability and rigid alignment across all modalities. We present CrossOver, a novel framework for cross-modal 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Sayan Deb Sarkar , Ondrej Miksik , Marc Pollefeys , Daniel Barath , Iro Armeni

Infrared dim and small target detection presents a significant challenge due to dynamic multi-frame scenarios and weak target signatures in the infrared modality. Traditional low-rank plus sparse models often fail to capture dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Pei Liu , Yisi Luo , Wenzhen Wang , Xiangyong Cao

The deformable registration of images of different modalities, essential in many medical imaging applications, remains challenging. The main challenge is developing a robust measure for image overlap despite the compared images capturing…

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Visible-Infrared person re-identification (VI-ReID) is a challenging matching problem due to large modality varitions between visible and infrared images. Existing approaches usually bridge the modality gap with only feature-level…

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