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Multi-modal image fusion (MMIF) maps useful information from various modalities into the same representation space, thereby producing an informative fused image. However, the existing fusion algorithms tend to symmetrically fuse the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Jingxue Huang , Xilai Li , Tianshu Tan , Xiaosong Li , Tao Ye

Text-driven infrared and visible image fusion has gained attention for enabling natural language to guide the fusion process. However, existing methods lack a goal-aligned task to supervise and evaluate how effectively the input text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Siju Ma , Changsiyu Gong , Xiaofeng Fan , Yong Ma , Chengjie Jiang

Image fusion aims to synthesize a single high-quality image from a pair of inputs captured under challenging conditions, such as differing exposure levels or focal depths. A core challenge lies in effectively handling disparities in dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Mingwei Tang , Jiahao Nie , Guang Yang , Ziqing Cui , Jie Li

Infrared and visible image fusion has been developed from vision perception oriented fusion methods to strategies which both consider the vision perception and high-level vision task. However, the existing task-driven methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Chengjie Jiang , Xiaowen Liu , Bowen Zheng , Lu Bai , Jing Li

Marine scene understanding and segmentation plays a vital role in maritime monitoring and navigation safety. However, prevalent factors like fog and strong reflections in maritime environments cause severe image degradation, significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Weichao Cai , Weiliang Huang , Biao Xue , Chao Huang , Fei Yuan , Bob Zhang

Current visual representation learning remains bifurcated: vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) excel at global semantic alignment but lack spatial precision, while self-supervised methods (e.g., MAE, DINO) capture intricate local structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shangzhe Di , Zhonghua Zhai , Weidi Xie

Current multi-modal image fusion methods typically rely on task-specific models, leading to high training costs and limited scalability. While generative methods provide a unified modeling perspective, they often suffer from slow inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Huayi Zhu , Xiu Shu , Youqiang Xiong , Qiao Liu , Rui Chen , Di Yuan , Xiaojun Chang , Zhenyu He

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiaoyang Zhang , jinjiang Li , Guodong Fan , Yakun Ju , Linwei Fan , Jun Liu , Alex C. Kot

Evaluation is essential in image fusion research, yet most existing metrics are directly borrowed from other vision tasks without proper adaptation. These traditional metrics, often based on complex image transformations, not only fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Chunyang Cheng , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tao Zhou , Hui Li , Zhangyong Tang , Josef Kittler

Existing text-driven infrared and visible image fusion approaches often rely on textual information at the sentence level, which can lead to semantic noise from redundant text and fail to fully exploit the deeper semantic value of textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Wenyu Shao , Hongbo Liu , Yunchuan Ma , Ruili Wang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Haowen Bai , Jiangshe Zhang , Zixiang Zhao , Yichen Wu , Lilun Deng , Yukun Cui , Tao Feng , Shuang Xu

Infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) is used to generate fusion images with comprehensive features of both images, which is beneficial for downstream vision tasks. However, current methods rarely consider the illumination condition in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Qiao Yang , Yu Zhang , Zijing Zhao , Jian Zhang , Shunli Zhang

Infrared and visible image fusion aims at generating a fused image containing the intensity and detail information of source images, and the key issue is effectively measuring and integrating the complementary information of multi-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Guang Yang , Jie Li , Hanxiao Lei , Xinbo Gao

This work targets to merge various Vision Transformers (ViTs) trained on different tasks (i.e., datasets with different object categories) or domains (i.e., datasets with the same categories but different environments) into one unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Peng Ye , Chenyu Huang , Mingzhu Shen , Tao Chen , Yongqi Huang , Yuning Zhang , Wanli Ouyang

Infrared and visible image fusion(IVIF) combines complementary modalities while preserving natural textures and salient thermal signatures. Existing solutions predominantly rely on extensive sets of rigidly aligned image pairs for training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yanglin Deng , Tianyang Xu , Chunyang Cheng , Hui Li , Xiao-jun Wu , Josef Kittler

The characteristics of feature selection, nonlinear combination and multi-task auxiliary learning mechanism of the human visual perception system play an important role in real-world scenarios, but the research of image fusion theory based…

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

Integrating visible and infrared images into one high-quality image, also known as visible and infrared image fusion, is a challenging yet critical task for many downstream vision tasks. Most existing works utilize pretrained deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Ming Chen , Yuxuan Cheng , Xinwei He , Xinyue Wang , Yan Aze , Jinhai Xiang

Multimodal image fusion (MMIF) integrates information from different modalities to obtain a comprehensive image, aiding downstream tasks. However, existing research focuses on complementary information fusion and training strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Dan He , Guofen Wang , Weisheng Li , Yucheng Shu , Wenbo Li , Lijian Yang , Yuping Huang , Feiyan Li

Infrared and visible image fusion aims to utilize the complementary information from two modalities to generate fused images with prominent targets and rich texture details. Most existing algorithms only perform pixel-level or feature-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Kun Hu , Qingle Zhang , Maoxun Yuan , Yitian Zhang

Deformable medical image registration is a crucial aspect of medical image analysis. In recent years, researchers have begun leveraging auxiliary tasks (such as supervised segmentation) to provide anatomical structure information for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Hongchao Zhou , Shunbo Hu