Current advances and future perspectives of image fusion: A comprehensive review

S Karim, G Tong, J Li, A Qadir, U Farooq, Y Yu - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
Multiple imaging modalities can be combined to provide more information about the real
world than a single modality alone. Infrared images discriminate targets with respect to their …

Fusiondn: A unified densely connected network for image fusion

H Xu, J Ma, Z Le, J Jiang, X Guo - Proceedings of the AAAI conference on …, 2020 - aaai.org
In this paper, we present a new unsupervised and unified densely connected network for
different types of image fusion tasks, termed as FusionDN. In our method, the densely …

Multimodal medical image fusion review: Theoretical background and recent advances

H Hermessi, O Mourali, E Zagrouba - Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
Multimodal medical image fusion consists in combining two or more images of the same or
different modalities aiming to improve the image content, and preserve information. The …

Multi-focus image fusion: A survey of the state of the art

Y Liu, L Wang, J Cheng, C Li, X Chen - Information Fusion, 2020 - Elsevier
Multi-focus image fusion is an effective technique to extend the depth-of-field of optical
lenses by creating an all-in-focus image from a set of partially focused images of the same …

Infrared and visible image fusion methods and applications: A survey

J Ma, Y Ma, C Li - Information fusion, 2019 - Elsevier
Infrared images can distinguish targets from their backgrounds based on the radiation
difference, which works well in all-weather and all-day/night conditions. By contrast, visible …

An infrared and visible image fusion method based on multi-scale transformation and norm optimization

G Li, Y Lin, X Qu - Information Fusion, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a new infrared and visible image fusion method based on multi-
scale transformation and norm optimization. In this method, a new loss function is designed …

FusionGAN: A generative adversarial network for infrared and visible image fusion

J Ma, W Yu, P Liang, C Li, J Jiang - Information fusion, 2019 - Elsevier
Infrared images can distinguish targets from their backgrounds on the basis of difference in
thermal radiation, which works well at all day/night time and under all weather conditions. By …

Rethinking the necessity of image fusion in high-level vision tasks: A practical infrared and visible image fusion network based on progressive semantic injection and …

L Tang, H Zhang, H Xu, J Ma - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
Image fusion aims to integrate complementary characteristics of source images into a single
fused image that better serves human visual observation and machine vision perception …

Rfnet: Unsupervised network for mutually reinforcing multi-modal image registration and fusion

H Xu, J Ma, J Yuan, Z Le, W Liu - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper, we propose a novel method to realize multi-modal image registration and
fusion in a mutually reinforcing framework, termed as RFNet. We handle the registration in a …

Medical image fusion with parameter-adaptive pulse coupled neural network in nonsubsampled shearlet transform domain

M Yin, X Liu, Y Liu, X Chen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an effective way to integrate the information contained in multiple medical images with
different modalities, medical image fusion has emerged as a powerful technique in various …