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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

The use of quaternions as a novel tool for color image representation has yielded impressive results in color image processing. By considering the color image as a unified entity rather than separate color space components, quaternions can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Jifei Miao , Kit Ian Kou , Liqiao Yang , Juan Han

Multi-focus image fusion (MFF) is a popular technique to generate an all-in-focus image, where all objects in the scene are sharp. However, existing methods pay little attention to defocus spread effects of the real-world multi-focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Shuang Xu , Lizhen Ji , Zhe Wang , Pengfei Li , Kai Sun , Chunxia Zhang , Jiangshe Zhang

Image fusion is famous as an alternative solution to generate one high-quality image from multiple images in addition to image restoration from a single degraded image. The essence of image fusion is to integrate complementary information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Pengwei Liang , Junjun Jiang , Qing Ma , Xianming Liu , Jiayi Ma

A new multifocus image fusion approach is presented in this paper. First the contourlet transform is used to decompose the source images into different components. Then, some salient features are extracted from components. In order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Fatemeh Vakili Moghadam , Hamid Reza Shahdoosti

Color in an image is resolved into 3 or 4 color components and 2-Dimages of these components are stored in separate channels. Most of the color image enhancement algorithms are applied channel-by-channel on each image. But such a system of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Artyom M. Grigoryan , Aparna John , Sos S. Agaian

Multi-focus image fusion is a challenging field of study that aims to provide a completely focused image by integrating focused and un-focused pixels. Most existing methods suffer from shift variance, misregistered images, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Sultan Sevgi Turgut , Mustafa Oral

Multi-exposure image fusion is a method for producing an image with a wide dynamic range by fusing multiple images taken under various exposure values. In this paper, we discuss color distortion included in fused images, and propose a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Artit Visavakitcharoen , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

For many years, channels of a color image have been processed individually, or the image has been converted to grayscale one with respect to color image processing. Pure quaternion representation of color images solves this issue as it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Alireza Parchami , Mojtaba Mahdavi

For better explore the relations of inter-modal and inner-modal, even in deep learning fusion framework, the concept of decomposition plays a crucial role. However, the previous decomposition strategies (base \& detail or low-frequency \&…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Hui Li , Haolong Ma , Chunyang Cheng , Zhongwei Shen , Xiaoning Song , Xiao-Jun Wu

Image fusion technology is widely used to fuse the complementary information between multi-source remote sensing images. Inspired by the frontier of deep learning, this paper first proposes a heterogeneous-integrated framework based on a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Menghui Jiang , Huanfeng Shen , Jie Li , Liangpei Zhang

Visible images offer rich texture details, while infrared images emphasize salient targets. Fusing these complementary modalities enhances scene understanding, particularly for advanced vision tasks under challenging conditions. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Beining Xu , Junxian Li

Image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple source images to produce a more informative and visually consistent representation, benefiting both human perception and downstream vision tasks. Despite recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingyuan Li , Songcheng Du , Yang Zou , HaoYuan Xu , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu

As a new color image representation tool, quaternion has achieved excellent results in color image processing problems. In this paper, we propose a novel low-rank quaternion matrix completion algorithm to recover missing data of color…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Jifei Miao , Kit Ian Kou

Image decomposition is crucial for many image processing tasks, as it allows to extract salient features from source images. A good image decomposition method could lead to a better performance, especially in image fusion tasks. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

The human visual perception system has strong robustness in image fusion. This robustness is based on human visual perception system's characteristics of feature selection and non-linear fusion of different features. In order to simulate…

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

Multispectral images (e.g. visible and infrared) may be particularly useful when detecting objects with the same model in different environments (e.g. day/night outdoor scenes). To effectively use the different spectra, the main technical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Heng Zhang , Elisa Fromont , Sébastien Lefevre , Bruno Avignon

Image analysis using more than one modality (i.e. multi-modal) has been increasingly applied in the field of biomedical imaging. One of the challenges in performing the multimodal analysis is that there exist multiple schemes for fusing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Zhe Guo , Xiang Li , Heng Huang , Ning Guo , Quanzheng Li

Complex degradations like noise, blur, and low resolution are typical challenges in real world image fusion tasks, limiting the performance and practicality of existing methods. End to end neural network based approaches are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yu Shi , Yu Liu , Zhong-Cheng Wu , Juan Cheng , Huafeng Li , Xun Chen

We propose a real-time image fusion method using pre-trained neural networks. Our method generates a single image containing features from multiple sources. We first decompose images into a base layer representing large scale intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Fayez Lahoud , Sabine Süsstrunk