Mobile infrared-visible imaging typically pairs a compact infrared sensor with a high-resolution visible camera for complementary perception. While cross-sensor misalignment caused by different optics, viewpoints, fields of view, and exposure timings hinders practical deployment.
Infrared-visible image fusion (IVIF) is pivotal for multimodal perception, yet reconciling the inherent information disparity between thermal and textural features remains a fundamental challenge. Existing prior-guided methods often rely on static constraints that induce optimization conflicts or utilize extrinsic semantic priors from large-scale foundation models (e.
arXiv:2608. 15972v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synchronized camera and wireless measurements observe the same scene through different physical channels.
By Yubo Zhang, Yiyao Liu
Visible-infrared (VIS-IR) alignment is a key pre-training task for robust multi-sensor perception. Most existing methods use uniform patch-wise contrastive learning, but this can be unreliable in VIS-IR data because imaging-physics differences make some spatially paired regions inherently less comparable, and aligning them with equal strength hinders representation learning and downstream transfer.
Controllable infrared-visible image fusion aims to integrate complementary thermal and structural information with flexible region-aware modulation, producing fused images that adapt to diverse user requirements and downstream tasks. However, existing methods typically rely on predefined discrete control conditions, leading to a sparse space that fails to support fine-grained modulation demands.
arXiv:2606. 17020v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote sensing vision-language models have advanced Earth observation understanding, but most existing work remains centered on RGB imagery, leaving the complementary information in infrared data underexplored.
By Jiaju Han, Ben Zhang, Xuemeng Sun, Qike Zhang, Yuxian Dong, Chengyin Hu, Fengyu Zhang, Yiwei Wei, Jiujiang Guo
Multimodal fusion learning (MFL) has shown great potential in the medical domain, where we are faced with disparate data modalities such as imaging, clinical records, and omics. However, existing MFL strategies face several major challenges.
Multi-modality image fusion (MMIF) enhances scene representation by exploiting complementary cues from different modalities. Adverse weather, however, causes significant image degradation, disrupting feature representation and requiring simultaneous feature restoration and cross-modal complementarity.
Remote sensing vision-language models have advanced Earth observation understanding, but most existing work remains centered on RGB imagery, leaving the complementary information in infrared data underexplored. Infrared images provide distinctive cues, including thermal intensity structures, object boundaries, and illumination-invariant scene features, which can enrich visual-language learning beyond conventional RGB observations.
arXiv:2604. 23094v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Portrait relighting is a low-level vision problem in which physically plausible illumination transfer, identity preservation, and compact real-time inference must be considered together.
By Qian Huang, Mayoore Selvarasa Jaiswal, Zhen Zhong, Rochelle Pereira, Jianyuan Min
arXiv:2607. 17611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-exposure fusion (MEF) expands the luminance range beyond what a single exposure can capture.
By Sangmin Han, Jinho Kim, Jinwoo Kim, Dongyoung Kim, Seon Joo Kim
arXiv:2607. 04603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) aims to identify long distance small targets from complex infrared backgrounds, and is a fundamental task in remote sensing.
By Tianfang Zhang, Fengyi Wu, Lei Li, Chang Liu, Zhenming Peng, Huaping Zhang, Xiangyang Ji