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Thermal imaging has a variety of applications, from agricultural monitoring to building inspection to imaging under poor visibility, such as in low light, fog, and rain. However, reconstructing thermal scenes in 3D presents several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yvette Y. Lin , Xin-Yi Pan , Sara Fridovich-Keil , Gordon Wetzstein

In many practical applications of long-range imaging such as biometrics and surveillance, thermal imagining modalities are often used to capture images in low-light and nighttime conditions. However, such imaging systems often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Kangfu Mei , Yiqun Mei , Vishal M. Patel

This paper proposes a new glass segmentation method utilizing paired RGB and thermal images. Due to the large difference between the transmission property of visible light and that of the thermal energy through the glass where most glass is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Dong Huo , Jian Wang , Yiming Qian , Yee-Hong Yang

Context enhancement is critical for night vision (NV) applications, especially for the dark night situation without any artificial lights. In this paper, we present the infrared-to-visual (IR2VI) algorithm, a novel unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Shuo Liu , Vijay John , Erik Blasch , Zheng Liu , Ying Huang

Rapid advances in deep learning for computer vision have driven the adoption of RGB camera-based adaptive traffic light systems to improve traffic safety and pedestrian comfort. However, these systems often overlook the needs of people with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Xiao Ni , Carsten Kuehnel , Xiaoyi Jiang

Most state-of-the-art crowd counting methods use color (RGB) images to learn the density map of the crowd. However, these methods often struggle to achieve higher accuracy in densely crowded scenes with poor illumination. Recently, some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Ridha Hamila

Despite remarkable progress in image translation, the complex scene with multiple discrepant objects remains a challenging problem. The translated images have low fidelity and tiny objects in fewer details causing unsatisfactory performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Liyun Zhang , Photchara Ratsamee , Bowen Wang , Zhaojie Luo , Yuki Uranishi , Manabu Higashida , Haruo Takemura

In many real world scenarios, it is difficult to capture the images in the visible light spectrum (VIS) due to bad lighting conditions. However, the images can be captured in such scenarios using Near-Infrared (NIR) and Thermal (THM)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Kancharagunta Kishan Babu , Shiv Ram Dubey

Most deep learning models are data-driven and the excellent performance is highly dependent on the abundant and diverse datasets. However, it is very hard to obtain and label the datasets of some specific scenes or applications. If we train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Tianxiao Zhang , Wenchi Ma , Guanghui Wang

This study proposes a lightweight multimodal adaptation framework to bridge the representation gap between RGB-pretrained VLMs and thermal infrared imagery, and demonstrates its practical utility using a real drone-collected dataset. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Hao Chen , Fang Qiu , Fangchao Dong , Defei Yang , Eve Bohnett , Li An

In this paper we propose a method for improving pedestrian detection in the thermal domain using two stages: first, a generative data augmentation approach is used, then a domain adaptation method using generated data adapts an RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-04 My Kieu , Lorenzo Berlincioni , Leonardo Galteri , Marco Bertini , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Alberto Del Bimbo

Thermal images model the long-infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum and provide meaningful information even when there is no visible illumination. Yet, unlike imagery that represents radiation from the visible continuum, infrared…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Nolan B. Gutierrez , William J. Beksi

The insufficient number of annotated thermal infrared (TIR) image datasets not only hinders TIR image-based deep learning networks to have comparable performances to that of RGB but it also limits the supervised learning of TIR image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Dong-Guw Lee , Myung-Hwan Jeon , Younggun Cho , Ayoung Kim

Onboard sensors, such as cameras and thermal sensors, have emerged as effective alternatives to Global Positioning System (GPS) for geo-localization in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation. Since GPS can suffer from signal loss and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Jiuhong Xiao , Daniel Tortei , Eloy Roura , Giuseppe Loianno

State-of-the-art techniques in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in image-to-image translation from peer domain X to domain Y using paired image data. However, obtaining abundant paired data is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Xuewen Yang , Dongliang Xie , Xin Wang

The majority of learning-based semantic segmentation methods are optimized for daytime scenarios and favorable lighting conditions. Real-world driving scenarios, however, entail adverse environmental conditions such as nighttime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Johan Vertens , Jannik Zürn , Wolfram Burgard

Transforming a thermal infrared image into a realistic RGB image is a challenging task. In this paper we propose a deep learning method to bridge this gap. We propose learning the transformation mapping using a coarse-to-fine generator that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Xiaodong Kuang , Xiubao Sui , Chengwei Liu , Yuan Liu , Qian Chen , Guohua Gu

In nighttime conditions, high noise levels and bright illumination sources degrade image quality, making low-light image enhancement challenging. Thermal images provide complementary information, offering richer textures and structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Raman Jha , Adithya Lenka , Mani Ramanagopal , Aswin Sankaranarayanan , Kaushik Mitra

Object detection in thermal infrared spectrum provides more reliable data source in low-lighting conditions and different weather conditions, as it is useful both in-cabin and outside for pedestrian, animal, and vehicular detection as well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Muhammad Ali Farooq , Peter Corcoran , Cosmin Rotariu , Waseem Shariff

Thermal weapon segmentation is crucial for surveillance and security applications, enabling robust detection under lowlight and visually obscured conditions where RGB-based systems fail. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) dominate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Akhila Kambhatla , Ahmed R Khaled