Advances in Image Fusion
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Multidisciplinary Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 88609
Special Issue Editors
Interests: machine learning; computer vision; information fusion; image super resolution; hyperspectral image analysis; infrared imaging; image denoising
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Interests: image fusion; image super-resolution; visual recognition; biomedical image analysis; machine learning; computer vision
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Interests: image super-resolution; image denoising; video processing; hyperspectral image analysis; image fusion; visual recognition; machine learning
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Interests: person re-identification; image retrieval; crowd counting; image enhancement; multimedia content analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many engineering, medical, remote sensing, environmental, national defense, and civilian applications require multiple types of information. Some examples are multimodality images; images with multiple exposure or focus settings; and images including multispectral, hyperspectral, and panchromatic images, ect. A single type of information can merely represent a part of the scene information, while the combination of multiple types of information can provide a comprehensive characterization. However, the deficiency is that the redundant multiple types of information take up much unnecessary storage space. Thus, the challenge of generating aligned and synthesized results by integrating complementary information has gained significant attention, both from storage space and visual perception viewpoints.
The implementation of information fusion is often hindered by different understandings of information, the definitions of meaningful information for subsequent tasks, the ways of information decomposition, the methods used to distinguish complementary information from redundant information, and the design of fusion rules, ect. Further progress on these issues calls for clearer physical explanations of these methods and definitions. Contributions addressing any of these issues are welcome.
This Special Issue aims to be a forum for new and improved information fusion techniques, which are not restricted to image fusion. Considering that there are inevitable offsets in the information collection process and that source images may sometimes be of low quality, it is likely that fusion techniques involving image registration and image enhancement will gain more popularity. In addition, fusion performance evaluation is also a significant factor in designing a good fusion algorithm. Therefore, studies on image quality assessment techniques, such as image-entropy-based methods, are welcome in this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Jiayi Ma
Dr. Yu Liu
Prof. Dr. Junjun Jiang
Dr. Zheng Wang
Ms. Han Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- visible and infrared image fusion
- medical image fusion
- multi-exposure image fusion
- multi-focus image fusion
- remote sensing image fusion
- image registration
- image super-resolution
- image enhancement and image super-resolution
- image quality assessment
- information fusion
- fusion applications
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