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Multimodal image fusion aims to combine relevant information from images acquired with different sensors. In medical imaging, fused images play an essential role in both standard and automated diagnosis. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Farshad G. Veshki , Nora Ouzir , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Esa Ollila

With the fast growth in the visual surveillance and security sectors, thermal infrared images have become increasingly necessary ina large variety of industrial applications. This is true even though IR sensors are still more expensive than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Feras Almasri , Olivier Debeir

Multi-modal image fusion aggregates information from multiple sensor sources, achieving superior visual quality and perceptual features compared to single-source images, often improving downstream tasks. However, current fusion methods for…

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Underwater images suffer from severe degradations, including color distortions, reduced visibility, and loss of structural details due to wavelength-dependent attenuation and scattering. Existing enhancement methods primarily focus on…

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This paper presents a concept of image pixel fusion of visual and thermal faces, which can significantly improve the overall performance of a face recognition system. Several factors affect face recognition performance including pose…

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Image fusion plays a key role in a variety of multi-sensor-based vision systems, especially for enhancing visual quality and/or extracting aggregated features for perception. However, most existing methods just consider image fusion as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Risheng Liu , Zhu Liu , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

Multimodal medical image fusion plays a crucial role in medical diagnosis by integrating complementary information from different modalities to enhance image readability and clinical applicability. However, existing methods mainly follow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haozhe Xiang , Han Zhang , Yu Cheng , Xiongwen Quan , Wanwan Huang

Image fusion integrates complementary information from multi-source images to generate more informative results. Recently, the diffusion model, which demonstrates unprecedented generative potential, has been explored in image fusion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Bing Cao , Baoshuo Cai , Changqing Zhang , Qinghua Hu

Existing fusion methods are tailored for high-quality images but struggle with degraded images captured under harsh circumstances, thus limiting the practical potential of image fusion. This work presents a \textbf{D}egradation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Linfeng Tang , Chunyu Li , Guoqing Wang , Yixuan Yuan , Jiayi Ma

Multimodal medical image fusion (MMIF) extracts the most meaningful information from multiple source images, enabling a more comprehensive and accurate diagnosis. Achieving high-quality fusion results requires a careful balance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Dan He , Weisheng Li , Guofen Wang , Yuping Huang , Shiqiang Liu

Collaborative visual perception methods have gained widespread attention in the autonomous driving community in recent years due to their ability to address sensor limitation problems. However, the absence of explicit depth information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Shaohong Wang , Bin Lu , Xinyu Xiao , Hanzhi Zhong , Bowen Pang , Tong Wang , Zhiyu Xiang , Hangguan Shan , Eryun Liu

Multi-modal image fusion (MMIF) integrates valuable information from different modality images into a fused one. However, the fusion of multiple visible images with different focal regions and infrared images is a unprecedented challenge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Xilai Li , Xiaosong Li , Tao Ye , Xiaoqi Cheng , Wuyang Liu , Haishu Tan

Multimodal medical imaging plays a pivotal role in clinical diagnosis and research, as it combines information from various imaging modalities to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the underlying pathology. Recently, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yihao Li , Mostafa El Habib Daho , Pierre-Henri Conze , Rachid Zeghlache , Hugo Le Boité , Ramin Tadayoni , Béatrice Cochener , Mathieu Lamard , Gwenolé Quellec

Text-to-image diffusion models have shown powerful ability on conditional image synthesis. With large-scale vision-language pre-training, diffusion models are able to generate high-quality images with rich texture and reasonable structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Hefeng Wang , Jiale Cao , Jin Xie , Aiping Yang , Yanwei Pang

Semantic segmentation in complex environments such as urban driving scenes remains challenging under adverse lighting conditions, where RGB images alone provide insufficient information. RGB-Thermal fusion leverages the complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 İsmail Emre Canıtez , Özgür Erkent

In the field of computer vision, visible light images often exhibit low contrast in low-light conditions, presenting a significant challenge. While infrared imagery provides a potential solution, its utilization entails high costs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yijia Chen , Pinghua Chen , Xiangxin Zhou , Yingtie Lei , Ziyang Zhou , Mingxian Li

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

Image decomposition is a crucial subject in the field of image processing. It can extract salient features from the source image. We propose a new image decomposition method based on convolutional neural network. This method can be applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yu Fu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

Here an efficient fusion technique for automatic face recognition has been presented. Fusion of visual and thermal images has been done to take the advantages of thermal images as well as visual images. By employing fusion a new image can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-07-06 M. K. Bhowmik , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , M. Nasipuri , D. K. Basu , M. Kundu

Infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) is essential for integrating thermal saliency with textural details to support downstream perception. However, most existing approaches suffer from "semantic blindness," leading to the erroneous…

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