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Visible and near-infrared(NIR) band sensors provide images that capture complementary spectral radiations from a scene. And the fusion of the visible and NIR image aims at utilizing their spectrum properties to enhance image quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Zhuo Li , Bo Li

Causal effect estimation from observational data is fundamental across various applications. However, selecting an appropriate estimator from dozens of specialized methods demands substantial manual effort and domain expertise. We present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Vahid Balazadeh , Hamidreza Kamkari , Valentin Thomas , Benson Li , Junwei Ma , Jesse C. Cresswell , Rahul G. Krishnan

Visual representations underlie object recognition tasks, but they often contain both robust and non-robust features. Our main observation is that image classifiers may perform poorly on out-of-distribution samples because spurious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Chengzhi Mao , Kevin Xia , James Wang , Hao Wang , Junfeng Yang , Elias Bareinboim , Carl Vondrick

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has gained significant research interest in recent years due to its potential applications in real-world scenarios. However, existing VLN methods struggle with the issue of spurious associations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Liuyi Wang , Zongtao He , Ronghao Dang , Huiyi Chen , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

We address the multi-focus image fusion problem, where multiple images captured with different focal settings are to be fused into an all-in-focus image of higher quality. Algorithms for this problem necessarily admit the source image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Farshad G. Veshki , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

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

Infrared and visible image fusion aims to integrate complementary multi-modal information into a single fused result. However, existing methods 1) fail to account for the degradation visible images under adverse weather conditions, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jing Li , Yifan Wang , Jiafeng Yan , Renlong Zhang , Bin Yang

Depth-guided multimodal fusion combines depth information from visible and infrared images, significantly enhancing the performance of 3D reconstruction and robotics applications. Existing thermal-visible image fusion mainly focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jinchang Zhang , Zijun Li , Guoyu Lu

This study addresses the issue of fusing infrared and visible images that appear differently for object detection. Aiming at generating an image of high visual quality, previous approaches discover commons underlying the two modalities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Zhanbo Huang , Guanyao Wu , Risheng Liu , Wei Zhong , Zhongxuan Luo

Convolutional neural networks have recently been used for multi-focus image fusion. However, due to the lack of labeled data for supervised training of such networks, existing methods have resorted to adding Gaussian blur in focused images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Xiang Yan , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Hanlin Qin , Ajmal Mian

Feature fusion is a commonly used strategy in image retrieval tasks, which aggregates the matching responses of multiple visual features. Feasible sets of features can be either descriptors (SIFT, HSV) for an entire image or the same…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Zhongdao Wang , Liang Zheng , Shengjin Wang

Image fusion aims to blend complementary information from multiple sensing modalities, yet existing approaches remain limited in robustness, adaptability, and controllability. Most current fusion networks are tailored to specific tasks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiayang Li , Chengjie Jiang , Junjun Jiang , Pengwei Liang , Jiayi Ma , Liqiang Nie

As one of the tasks in Image Fusion, Infrared and Visible Image Fusion aims to integrate complementary information captured by sensors of different modalities into a single image. The Selective State Space Model (SSSM), known for its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Haolong Ma , Hui Li , Chunyang Cheng , Gaoang Wang , Xiaoning Song , Xiaojun Wu

Image fusion aims to integrate comprehensive information from images acquired through multiple sources. However, images captured by diverse sensors often encounter various degradations that can negatively affect fusion quality. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xingxin Xu , Bing Cao , Dongdong Li , Qinghua Hu , Pengfei Zhu

Inferring the causal direction between two variables from their observation data is one of the most fundamental and challenging topics in data science. A causal direction inference algorithm maps the observation data into a binary value…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Yulai Zhang , Jiachen Wang , Gang Cen , Guiming Luo

Matching of binary image features is an important step in many different computer vision applications. Conventionally, an arbitrary threshold is used to identify a correct match from incorrect matches using Hamming distance which may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Erkan Bostanci , Nadia Kanwal , Betul Bostanci , Mehmet Serdar Guzel

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

In the era of big data, the explosive growth of multi-source heterogeneous data offers many exciting challenges and opportunities for improving the inference of conditional average treatment effects. In this paper, we investigate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-02 Xinyu Li , Yilin Li , Qing Cui , Longfei Li , Jun Zhou

LiDAR and camera fusion techniques are promising for achieving 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Most multi-modal 3D object detection frameworks integrate semantic knowledge from 2D images into 3D LiDAR point clouds to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shaoqing Xu , Fang Li , Ziying Song , Jin Fang , Sifen Wang , Zhi-Xin Yang

General deep learning-based methods for infrared and visible image fusion rely on the unsupervised mechanism for vital information retention by utilizing elaborately designed loss functions. However, the unsupervised mechanism depends on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Fan Zhao , Wenda Zhao , Huchuan Lu