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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,648 Views
19 Pages

24 February 2023

With the industrial demand caused by multi-sensor image fusion, infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) technology is flourishing. In recent years, scale decomposition methods have led the trend for feature extraction. Such methods, however, have lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,596 Views
21 Pages

25 October 2024

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is widely used in the clinical field due to its non-invasiveness, but the long scanning time is still a bottleneck for its popularization. Using the complementary information between multi-modal imaging to accelerate i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,154 Views
15 Pages

15 July 2022

Light field (LF) cameras can record multi-view images from a single scene, and these images can provide spatial and angular information to improve the performance of image super-resolution (SR). However, it is a challenge to incorporate distinctive i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
691 Views
25 Pages

9 November 2025

Different action recognition tasks exhibit significant variations in their reliance on local versus global features. Particularly for long-video understanding, dynamically balancing the contributions of both has become a critical challenge for improv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
949 Views
21 Pages

Concrete dams are essential components in hydraulic engineering, and the detection of surface cracks remains a major concern in structural health monitoring. This study presents CCT Net, a segmentation model designed to enable the automated detection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,838 Views
28 Pages

End-to-End Super-Resolution for Remote-Sensing Images Using an Improved Multi-Scale Residual Network

  • Hai Huan,
  • Pengcheng Li,
  • Nan Zou,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Yaqin Xie,
  • Yong Xie and
  • Dongdong Xu

12 February 2021

Remote-sensing images constitute an important means of obtaining geographic information. Image super-resolution reconstruction techniques are effective methods of improving the spatial resolution of remote-sensing images. Super-resolution reconstruct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,152 Views
19 Pages

Improved Complementary Pulmonary Nodule Segmentation Model Based on Multi-Feature Fusion

  • Tiequn Tang,
  • Feng Li,
  • Minshan Jiang,
  • Xunpeng Xia,
  • Rongfu Zhang and
  • Kailin Lin

30 November 2022

Accurate segmentation of lung nodules from pulmonary computed tomography (CT) slices plays a vital role in the analysis and diagnosis of lung cancer. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in the automatic seg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,241 Views
30 Pages

28 July 2021

We present a new architecture to address the challenges of speaker identification that arise in interaction of humans with social robots. Though deep learning systems have led to impressive performance in many speech applications, limited speech data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
823 Views
18 Pages

2 September 2025

Camouflaged object detection (COD) seeks to precisely detect and delineate objects that are concealed within complex and ambiguous backgrounds. However, due to subtle texture variations and semantic ambiguity, it remains a highly challenging task. Ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,838 Views
25 Pages

25 August 2024

The main purpose of infrared and visible image fusion is to produce a fusion image that incorporates less redundant information while incorporating more complementary information, thereby facilitating subsequent high-level visual tasks. However, obta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
765 Views
28 Pages

MRLF: Multi-Resolution Layered Fusion Network for Optical and SAR Images

  • Jinwei Wang,
  • Liang Ma,
  • Bo Zhao,
  • Zhenguang Gou,
  • Yingzheng Yin and
  • Guangcai Sun

17 November 2025

To enhance the comprehensive representation capability and fusion accuracy of remote sensing information, this paper proposes a multi-resolution hierarchical fusion network (MRLF) tailored to the heterogeneous characteristics of optical and synthetic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
800 Views
21 Pages

16 July 2025

Compared to other multi-source image fusion tasks, visible and SAR image fusion faces a lack of training data in deep learning-based methods. Introducing structural priors to design fusion networks is a viable solution. We incorporated the feature hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,371 Views
28 Pages

MEEAFusion: Multi-Scale Edge Enhancement and Joint Attention Mechanism Based Infrared and Visible Image Fusion

  • Yingjiang Xie,
  • Zhennan Fei,
  • Da Deng,
  • Lingshuai Meng,
  • Fu Niu and
  • Jinggong Sun

9 September 2024

Infrared and visible image fusion can integrate rich edge details and salient infrared targets, resulting in high-quality images suitable for advanced tasks. However, most available algorithms struggle to fully extract detailed features and overlook...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,679 Views
17 Pages

9 January 2024

Image fusion is the generation of an informative image that contains complementary information from the original sensor images, such as texture details and attentional targets. Existing methods have designed a variety of feature extraction algorithms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,056 Views
20 Pages

Feature-Decision Level Collaborative Fusion Network for Hyperspectral and LiDAR Classification

  • Shenfu Zhang,
  • Xiangchao Meng,
  • Qiang Liu,
  • Gang Yang and
  • Weiwei Sun

24 August 2023

The fusion-based classification of hyperspectral (HS) and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) images has become a prominent research topic, as their complementary information can effectively improve classification performance. The current methods enc...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
6,199 Views
19 Pages

17 December 2018

Currently, the detection of blueberry internal bruising focuses mostly on single hyperspectral imaging (HSI) systems. Attempts to fuse different HSI systems with complementary spectral ranges are still lacking. A push broom based HSI system and a liq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,575 Views
16 Pages

21 April 2025

The purpose of multi-modal visual information fusion is to integrate the data of multi-sensors to generate an image with higher quality, more information, and greater clarity so that it contains more complementary information and fewer redundant feat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,371 Views
21 Pages

3 October 2025

Unimodal brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) often suffer from inherent limitations due to the characteristic of using single modalities. While hybrid BCIs combining electroencephalography (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,413 Views
20 Pages

The rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and deep learning has accelerated the application of semantic segmentation in precision agriculture (SSPA). A key driver of this progress lies in multimodal fusion, which leverages complementar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,339 Views
16 Pages

20 September 2024

Multimodal automatic modulation recognition (MAMR) has emerged as a prominent research area. The effective fusion of features from different modalities is crucial for MAMR tasks. An effective multimodal fusion mechanism should maximize the extraction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,978 Views
20 Pages

SiamCAF: Complementary Attention Fusion-Based Siamese Network for RGBT Tracking

  • Yingjian Xue,
  • Jianwei Zhang,
  • Zhoujin Lin,
  • Chenglong Li,
  • Bihan Huo and
  • Yan Zhang

24 June 2023

The tracking community is increasingly focused on RGBT tracking, which leverages the complementary strengths of corresponding visible light and thermal infrared images. The most well-known RGBT trackers, however, are unable to balance performance and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,277 Views
18 Pages

Bi-Att3DDet: Attention-Based Bi-Directional Fusion for Multi-Modal 3D Object Detection

  • Xu Gao,
  • Yaqian Zhao,
  • Yanan Wang,
  • Jiandong Shang,
  • Chunmin Zhang and
  • Gang Wu

23 January 2025

Currently, multi-modal 3D object detection methods have become a key area of research in the field of autonomous driving. Fusion is an essential factor affecting performance in multi-modal object detection. However, previous methods still suffer from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
271 Views
29 Pages

LF-DETR: A Laplacian Frequency Enhanced DETR for Aerial RGB-Infrared Pedestrian Detection

  • Herong Qi,
  • Hui Qin,
  • Xuanyu Xiang,
  • Chunming Yang and
  • Yihua Tan

6 February 2026

Pedestrian detection from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) holds significant value in security surveillance and emergency response applications. While visible-infrared (RGB-IR) fusion technology demonstrates potential in handling complex lighting cond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
314 Views
23 Pages

SAR and Visible Image Fusion via Retinex-Guided SAR Reconstruction

  • Yuman Yuan,
  • Tianyu Deng,
  • Yi Le,
  • Hongyang Bai,
  • Shuai Guo,
  • Shangjing Sun and
  • Yuanbo Chen

28 December 2025

The fusion of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and visible images offers complementary spatial and spectral information, enabling more reliable and comprehensive scene interpretation. However, SAR speckle noise and the intrinsic modality gap pose signi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
5,159 Views
20 Pages

16 November 2020

Automated extraction of buildings from earth observation (EO) data has long been a fundamental but challenging research topic. Combining data from different modalities (e.g., high-resolution imagery (HRI) and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,082 Views
20 Pages

13 September 2023

The infrared and visible image fusion task aims to generate a single image that preserves complementary features and reduces redundant information from different modalities. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can effectively extract local...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,319 Views
28 Pages

19 October 2021

Multi-focus image fusion is an important method used to combine the focused parts from source multi-focus images into a single full-focus image. Currently, to address the problem of multi-focus image fusion, the key is on how to accurately detect the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,048 Views
21 Pages

Lightweight Cross-Modal Information Mutual Reinforcement Network for RGB-T Salient Object Detection

  • Chengtao Lv,
  • Bin Wan,
  • Xiaofei Zhou,
  • Yaoqi Sun,
  • Jiyong Zhang and
  • Chenggang Yan

31 January 2024

RGB-T salient object detection (SOD) has made significant progress in recent years. However, most existing works are based on heavy models, which are not applicable to mobile devices. Additionally, there is still room for improvement in the design of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,675 Views
17 Pages

24 August 2022

With the popularity of social networking services, people are increasingly inclined to share their opinions and feelings on social networks, leading to the rapid increase in multimodal posts on various platforms. Therefore, multimodal sentiment analy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,597 Views
18 Pages

Feature-Level Image Fusion Scheme for X-Ray Multi-Contrast Imaging

  • Zhuo Zuo,
  • Jinglei Luo,
  • Haoran Liu,
  • Xiang Zheng and
  • Guibin Zan

Since the mid-1990s, X-ray phase contrast imaging (XPCI) has attracted increasing interest in the industrial and bioimaging fields due to its high sensitivity to weakly absorbing materials and has gained widespread acceptance. XPCI can simultaneously...

  • Article
  • Open Access
174 Views
31 Pages

29 January 2026

No-reference stereoscopic image quality assessment (NR-SIQA) remains a fundamental challenge due to the complex biological mechanisms of binocular rivalry and fusion, particularly under asymmetric distortions. In this paper, we propose a novel framew...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,783 Views
19 Pages

29 December 2023

Infrared and visible image fusion aims to produce an informative fused image for the same scene by integrating the complementary information from two source images. Most deep-learning-based fusion networks utilize small kernel-size convolution to ext...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,155 Views
31 Pages

Intelligent Target Detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images Based on Multi-Level Fusion

  • Qiaoyu Liu,
  • Ziqi Ye,
  • Chenxiang Zhu,
  • Dongxu Ouyang,
  • Dandan Gu and
  • Haipeng Wang

1 January 2025

Due to the unique imaging mechanism of SAR, targets in SAR images present complex scattering characteristics. As a result, intelligent target detection in SAR images has been facing many challenges, which mainly lie in the insufficient exploitation o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,188 Views
17 Pages

28 February 2023

The current deep learning-based image fusion methods can not sufficiently learn the features of images in a wide frequency range. Therefore, we proposed IFormerFusion, which is based on the Inception Transformer and cross-domain frequency fusion. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,321 Views
16 Pages

RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) aims at locating the most eye-catching object in visual input by fusing complementary information of RGB modality and depth modality. Most of the existing RGB-D SOD methods integrate multi-modal features to genera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
6,614 Views
17 Pages

Attention Fusion for One-Stage Multispectral Pedestrian Detection

  • Zhiwei Cao,
  • Huihua Yang,
  • Juan Zhao,
  • Shuhong Guo and
  • Lingqiao Li

18 June 2021

Multispectral pedestrian detection, which consists of a color stream and thermal stream, is essential under conditions of insufficient illumination because the fusion of the two streams can provide complementary information for detecting pedestrians...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,342 Views
12 Pages

Object detection is an important perception task in autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems. The visible camera is widely used for perception, but its performance is limited by illumination and environmental variations. For robust v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,216 Views
17 Pages

Multi-Scale Feature Interactive Fusion Network for RGBT Tracking

  • Xianbing Xiao,
  • Xingzhong Xiong,
  • Fanqin Meng and
  • Zhen Chen

24 March 2023

The fusion tracking of RGB and thermal infrared image (RGBT) is paid wide attention to due to their complementary advantages. Currently, most algorithms obtain modality weights through attention mechanisms to integrate multi-modalities information. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,257 Views
19 Pages

Burst-Enhanced Super-Resolution Network (BESR)

  • Jiaao Li,
  • Qunbo Lv,
  • Wenjian Zhang,
  • Yu Zhang and
  • Zheng Tan

23 March 2024

Multi-frame super-resolution (MFSR) leverages complementary information between image sequences of the same scene to increase the resolution of the reconstructed image. As a branch of MFSR, burst super-resolution aims to restore image details by leve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,330 Views
25 Pages

The accurate identification of rice fields through remote sensing is critical for agricultural monitoring and global food security. While optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data offer complementary advantages for crop mapping—spectral r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,956 Views
26 Pages

10 July 2025

Although multimodal feature fusion technology in fake news detection can integrate complementary information from different modal data, the semantic inconsistency of multimodal features will lead to feature fusion difficulties. And there is the probl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,553 Views
25 Pages

1 September 2024

Infrared and visible image fusion integrates complementary information from different modalities into a single image, providing sufficient imaging information for scene interpretation and downstream target recognition tasks. However, existing fusion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,053 Views
26 Pages

18 August 2025

With the rapid advancement of remote sensing technologies, the joint classification of hyperspectral image (HSI) and LiDAR data has become a key research focus in the field. To address the impact of inherent uncertainties in hyperspectral images on c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
766 Views
19 Pages

A Gated Ridge Regression-Based Multimodal Spectral Fusion Approach for Predicting Soil Organic Matter

  • Guofang Wang,
  • Juanling Wang,
  • Mingjing Huang,
  • Jiancheng Zhang,
  • Xuefang Huang,
  • Xiuquan Zhang and
  • Wuping Zhang

21 November 2025

The fusion of Raman and visible–near-infrared (VIS–NIR) spectroscopy provides a promising pathway for rapid and non-destructive soil analysis. However, conventional fusion strategies often fail to properly balance modality discrepancies a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,663 Views
22 Pages

Infrared–Visible Image Fusion through Feature-Based Decomposition and Domain Normalization

  • Weiyi Chen,
  • Lingjuan Miao,
  • Yuhao Wang,
  • Zhiqiang Zhou and
  • Yajun Qiao

10 March 2024

Infrared–visible image fusion is valuable across various applications due to the complementary information that it provides. However, the current fusion methods face challenges in achieving high-quality fused images. This paper identifies a lim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,469 Views
22 Pages

14 May 2025

Precise identification of active jamming in complex electromagnetic environments remains critically challenging for cognitive radar systems. Current methods often exhibit limitations in insufficient feature extraction and underutilization of jamming...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,443 Views
23 Pages

FQDNet: A Fusion-Enhanced Quad-Head Network for RGB-Infrared Object Detection

  • Fangzhou Meng,
  • Aoping Hong,
  • Hongying Tang and
  • Guanjun Tong

20 March 2025

RGB-IR object detection provides a promising solution for complex scenarios, such as remote sensing and low-light environments, by leveraging the complementary strengths of visible and infrared modalities. Despite significant advancements, two key ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
848 Views
23 Pages

A Meta-Learning-Based Recognition Method for Multidimensional Feature Extraction and Fusion of Underwater Targets

  • Xiaochun Liu,
  • Yunchuan Yang,
  • Youfeng Hu,
  • Xiangfeng Yang,
  • Liwen Liu,
  • Lei Shi and
  • Jianguo Liu

21 May 2025

To tackle the challenges of relative attitude adaptability and limited sample availability in underwater moving target recognition for active sonar, this study focuses on key aspects such as feature extraction, network model design, and information f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
8,296 Views
15 Pages

Improving RGB-Infrared Object Detection by Reducing Cross-Modality Redundancy

  • Qingwang Wang,
  • Yongke Chi,
  • Tao Shen,
  • Jian Song,
  • Zifeng Zhang and
  • Yan Zhu

22 April 2022

In the field of remote sensing image applications, RGB and infrared image object detection is an important technology. The object detection performance can be improved and the robustness of the algorithm will be enhanced by making full use of their c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,311 Views
20 Pages

9 June 2025

Accurate detection of individual tree crowns is a critical prerequisite for precisely extracting forest structural parameters, which is vital for forestry resources monitoring. While unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-acquired RGB imagery, combined with d...

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