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Remote sensing image fusion is an effective way to use a large volume of data from multisensor images. Most earth satellites such as SPOT, Landsat 7, IKONOS and QuickBird provide both panchromatic (Pan) images at a higher spatial resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-24 Reham Gharbia , Ahmad Taher Azar , Ali El Baz , Aboul Ella Hassanien

We address the problem of multi-modal object tracking in video and explore various options of fusing the complementary information conveyed by the visible (RGB) and thermal infrared (TIR) modalities including pixel-level, feature-level and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Xuefeng Zhu , Josef Kittler

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems are powerful search tools in image databases that have been little applied to hyperspectral images. Relevance feedback (RF) is an iterative process that uses machine learning techniques and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-03-18 Miguel Angel Veganzones , Mihai Datcu , Manuel Graña

In this paper, we propose a novel method for image fusion with a high-resolution panchromatic image and a low-resolution multispectral image at the same geographical location. The fusion is formulated as a convex optimization problem which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Chen Chen , Yeqing Li , Wei Liu , Junzhou Huang

The fusion of infrared and visible images is essential in remote sensing applications, as it combines the thermal information of infrared images with the detailed texture of visible images for more accurate analysis in tasks like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Han Yan , Songlei Xiong , Long Wang , Lihua Jian , Gemine Vivone

Infrared and visible image fusion has garnered considerable attention owing to the strong complementarity of these two modalities in complex, harsh environments. While deep learning-based fusion methods have made remarkable advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Guihui Li , Bowei Dong , Kaizhi Dong , Jiayi Li , Haiyong Zheng

A significant challenge in object detection is accurate identification of an object's position in image space, whereas one algorithm with one set of parameters is usually not enough, and the fusion of multiple algorithms and/or parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Pan Wei , John E. Ball , Derek T. Anderson

Near-infrared (NIR) hyperspectral imaging is widely used to reveal morphological and chemical information. However, conventional spectral imagers usually rely on costly focal plane arrays and suffer from data redundancy and inefficiencies…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ben Sun , Kun Huang , Zhibin Zhao , Beibei Dong , Jianan Fang , Heping Zeng

Due to the lack of a definitive ground truth for the image fusion problem, the loss functions are structured based on evaluation metrics, such as the structural similarity index measure (SSIM). However, in doing so, a bias is introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Aytekin Erdogan , Erdem Akagündüz

Image fusion typically employs non-invertible neural networks to merge multiple source images into a single fused image. However, for clinical experts, solely relying on fused images may be insufficient for making diagnostic decisions, as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Nishant Kumar , Ziyan Tao , Jaikirat Singh , Yang Li , Peiwen Sun , Binghui Zhao , Stefan Gumhold

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 (IR) imaging offers advantages in several fields due to its unique ability of capturing content in extreme light conditions. However, the demanding hardware requirements of high-resolution IR sensors limit its widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jingchao Peng , Thomas Bashford-Rogers , Zhuang Shao , Haitao Zhao , Aru Ranjan Singh , Abhishek Goswami , Kurt Debattista

Image dehazing poses significant challenges in environmental perception. Recent research mainly focus on deep learning-based methods with single modality, while they may result in severe information loss especially in dense-haze scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Meng Yu , Te Cui , Haoyang Lu , Yufeng Yue

The fusion of visible light and infrared images has garnered significant attention in the field of imaging due to its pivotal role in various applications, including surveillance, remote sensing, and medical imaging. Therefore, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xu Song , Yongbiao Xiao , Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Jun Sun , Vasile Palade

Recognition of iris based on Visible Light (VL) imaging is a difficult problem because of the light reflection from the cornea. Nonetheless, pigment melanin provides a rich feature source in VL, unavailable in Near-Infrared (NIR) imaging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mahdi S. Hosseini , Babak N. Araabi , Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh

The end-to-end image fusion framework has achieved promising performance, with dedicated convolutional networks aggregating the multi-modal local appearance. However, long-range dependencies are directly neglected in existing CNN fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Dongyu Rao , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tianyang Xu

Infrared and visible image fusion aims to generate synthetic images simultaneously containing salient features and rich texture details, which can be used to boost downstream tasks. However, existing fusion methods are suffering from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Hui Li , Yongbiao Xiao , Chunyang Cheng , Zhongwei Shen , Xiaoning Song

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chao Yang , Deshui Miao , Chao Tian , Guoqing Zhu , Yameng Gu , Zhenyu He

Clouds and snow have similar spectral features in the visible and near-infrared (VNIR) range and are thus difficult to distinguish from each other in high resolution VNIR images. We address this issue by introducing a shortwave-infrared…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Debvrat Varshney , Claudio Persello , Prasun Kumar Gupta , Bhaskar Ramachandra Nikam

Infrared and visible image fusion plays a critical role in enhancing scene perception by combining complementary information from different modalities. Despite recent advances, achieving high-quality image fusion with lightweight models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yuhao Wang , Lingjuan Miao , Zhiqiang Zhou , Yajun Qiao , Lei Zhang