Infrared-Visible Image Fusion

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Infrared-visible image fusion combines thermal information, which can reveal warm objects in darkness or clutter, with visible-light detail such as edges and textures. Methods include convolutional and Transformer networks, frequency- and wavelet-based fusion, registration for misaligned sensors, and newer diffusion or prompt-guided models that adapt to scene conditions. Researchers assess fused-image quality on benchmarks and test whether fusion improves tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation. A central challenge is balancing complementary information without introducing artifacts, especially when sensors are misaligned or conditions degrade the images; human-aligned evaluation and reliable gains across tasks remain open concerns.

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  1. ProtoFusion: Protocol-Guided Prompt Refinement for Generative Infrared and Visible Image Fusion

    Nov 2, 2026Pengwei Liang, Junjun Jiang, Junhui HouInfrared-Visible Image FusionPrompt Optimization

    Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China

  2. NatureFusion: Rethinking Infrared and Visible Image Fusion as Natural Complementary Enhancement

    Nov 1, 2026Jianfeng Ding, Linfeng Tang, Hao Zhang +6Infrared-Visible Image FusionMulti-Source Image Fusion

    the National Engineering Research Center for Multimedia Software (NERCMS), School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China · the School of Robotics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China · the Electronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China +1

  3. TriDifNet: A Unified Three-Task Diffusion Network for End-to-End RGB-T Perception

    Oct 27, 2026Qianchao He, Jing Liu, Yunhao Li +1Object DetectionInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    School of Automation Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China · School of Electrical and Control Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China

  4. Early versus Late RGB-Infrared Fusion for Counter-UAV Detection: A Comparative Study

    Oct 21, 2026Alberto De Zan, Denis Tavaris, Gian Luca Foresti +1UAV DetectionInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Udine, Via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy

  5. Multi-View Structural Representations for Physically-Consistent TeX Generation

    Oct 19, 2026Daoheng Li, Jianjun Qian*, Mengkai Yan +1Image GenerationPhysics-Informed Generative Modeling

    Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China · Hohai University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

  6. PCDFusion: Proposal-Context-Detail Bayesian Rendering for Infrared-Visible Image Fusion

    Oct 16, 2026Rui Liu, Lin Gu, Hesong Li +1Infrared-Visible Image FusionMulti-Source Image Fusion

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan

  7. CRT-HMAR: Causal Requirement Tracing-Guided Hierarchical Multi-Agent Regulation for Open-Task-Aware Infrared-Visible Image Fusion

    Oct 7, 2026Zengyi Yang, Shuai Yuan, Zhong-Cheng Wu +3Infrared-Visible Image FusionMulti-Task Optimization

    School of Instrument Science and Opto-electronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China · Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China

  8. SAGE: Source-Anchored Guidance via Frequency Equalization for Hierarchical RGB-T Alignment and Fusion

    Sep 25, 2026Timing Li, Yiming Sun, Boan Tao +3Multi-Source Image FusionInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

  9. Aligned Radiometric RGB-Thermal Fusion for UAV Facade Anomaly Screening

    Sep 11, 2026Yuan Yang, Shulei Li, Haobo LiangThermal ImagingInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    Hong Kong Center for Construction Robotics, Hong Kong SAR, China

  10. RoES: Rotational Equivariant Selective-frequency Fusion for Multimodal Images

    Sep 11, 2026Jiabao Wang, Wenjian Liu, Yaoming Cai +5Multi-Source Image FusionInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    Zhongnan University of Economics and Law Wuhan, Hubei, China · City University of Macau Macau, China · University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, Illinois, United States +3

  11. IT-TextFusion: Iterative Text-Image Interaction with Text-Guided Residual Refinement for Degradation-Aware Image Fusion

    Sep 1, 2026Siyang Liu, Peiyi Zhou, Tianle Jin +3Multi-Source Image FusionInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-time Systems, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany · School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

  12. SGPDFuse: Semantically-Guided Physics-Disentanglement General Multi-Modal Image Fusion

    Aug 29, 2026Haozhen Wei, Chengjun Jiang, Yutong Guo +4Multi-Source Image FusionInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    Dalian University of Technology Dalian, Liaoning, China · City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China · Zhejiang University Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

  13. UniDiffFusion: A Unified Diffusion Framework for Multi-Task and Degradation-Robust Image Fusion

    Aug 22, 2026Xingxin Xu, Siqi Zhao, Xin Li +3Multi-Source Image FusionInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    School of New Media and Communication, Tianjin University · School of Artificial Intelligence, Tianjin University · School of Automation, Southeast University +1

  14. P2Fusion: Prompt-based Progressive Infrared-Visible Image Fusion via Dual-Prior Distillation

    Aug 13, 2026Yi Shi, Huichao Xie, Yuqing Wang +7Multi-Source Image FusionInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China · Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China · Rocket Force University of Engineering, Xi’an, China +1

  15. Ranking Infrared-Visible Fusion the Way Humans Do: A Learned Pairwise Preference Measure

    Aug 2, 2026Haoran Liu, Mingzhe Liu, Peng Li +1Pairwise Preference LearningMulti-Source Image Fusion

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan Technology and Business University, Chengdu 611745, China · College of Nuclear Technology and Automation Engineering, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China · National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, China

  16. Unleashing the Power of Text: Text-Guided Flow Matching for Image Fusion under Complex Degradations

    Aug 1, 2026Axi Niu, Jieheng Li, Kang Zhang +3Flow MatchingMulti-Source Image Fusion

    School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China · School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China · School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea +2

  17. Toward Robust and 3D-Aware RGB-NIR Imaging in the Dark

    Jul 31, 2026Muyao Niu, Mingze Ma, Yifan Zhan +5Image EnhancementInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan · Adelaide University Adelaide, Australia · School of Artificial Intelligence (SAI) Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China +1

  18. BeyondFusion: Self-Aligned Latent Diffusion for Calibration-Free Infrared Super-Resolution and Infrared-Visible Fusion

    Jul 27, 2026Minchong Chen, Xiaoyun Yuan, Minyu Cao +4Diffusion Models for Image RestorationMulti-Source Image Fusion

    MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, Institute of AI, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

  19. ConFusion: Continuous Fusion Space Learning for Fine-Grained Controllable Infrared and Visible Image Fusion

    Jul 26, 2026Guo Yurong, He Yufei, Li Yonghao +3Multi-Source Image FusionInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    North China Electric Power University Baoding, Hebei, China · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, China

  20. Current Injection Spiking Neural Network for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion

    Jul 22, 2026Rui Zhao, Zhuoyuan Li, Wenrui Li +4Efficient Neural Network InferenceMulti-Source Image Fusion

    College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China +2

  21. Text-Driven Fusion for Infrared and Visible Images: Achieving Image Scene Adaptation on Hyperbolic Space

    Jun 13, 2026Huan Kang, Hui Li, Tianyang Xu +3Multi-Source Image FusionInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China · Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

  22. FMRFusion: Frequency-Aware Multi-View Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Image Fusion

    Jun 6, 2026Tao Zhoua, Yunlong Liu, Qinghui Chen +6Multi-Source Image FusionInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, China · Key Laboratory of Machine Intelligence and System Control, Ministry of Education, Jinan, 250061, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, 999078, China +1

  23. Multimodal Object Detection Under Sparse Forest-Canopy Occlusion

    May 14, 2026Nitik Jain, Mangal KothariInfrared-Visible Image FusionObject Detection

    Robotics & AI, Johns Hopkins University, USA. This research was carried out entirely while the author was with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur. · This research was carried out entirely while the author was with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur. · Senior Principal Flight Control Engineer, ADASI, EDGE Group, Abu Dhabi, UAE. This research was carried out entirely while the author was with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

  24. Uncertainty-aware Spatial-Frequency Registration and Fusion for Infrared and Visible Images

    May 13, 2026Xingyuan Li, Haoyuan Xu, Xingyue Zhu +4Multi-Source Image FusionInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    Dalian University of Technology · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Dalian Maritime University

  25. Bringing Multimodal Large Language Models to Infrared-Visible Image Fusion Quality Assessment

    May 7, 2026Yuchen Guo, Junli Gong, Yao Lu +3Infrared-Visible Image FusionLearning to Rank

    Northwestern University · Northeastern University · University of Washington +2

  26. Fusion in Your Way: Aligning Image Fusion with Heterogeneous Demands via Direct Preference Optimization

    May 7, 2026Weijian Su, Songqian Zhang, Yuqi Han +3Diffusion Model AlignmentMulti-Source Image Fusion

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology · Key Laboratory of Social Computing and Cognitive Intelligence (Dalian University of Technology), Ministry of Education · Institute of Image Processing and Understanding, North Minzu University

  27. Adding Thermal Awareness to Visual Systems in Real-Time via Distilled Diffusion Models

    May 7, 2026Yuchen Guo, Junli Gong, Wenjun Dong +2Multi-Source Image FusionInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    Northwestern University · Northeastern University · Hong Kong Baptist University +1

  28. EAPFusion: Intrinsic Evolving Auxiliary Prior Guidance for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion

    May 3, 2026Zhenyu Sun, Luobin Zhang, Axi Niu +2Dynamic ConvolutionMulti-Source Image Fusion

    Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China

  29. Combined Dictionary Unfolding Network with Gradient-Adaptive Fidelity for Transferable Multi-Source Fusion

    May 1, 2026Ge Luo, Jun-Jie Huang, Qi Yu +6Multi-Source Image FusionRepresentation Learning

    College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China · College of Surveying and Geoinformatics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China · School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

  30. Customized Fusion: A Closed-Loop Dynamic Network for Adaptive Multi-Task-Aware Infrared-Visible Image Fusion

    Apr 10, 2026Zengyi Yang, Yu Liu, Juan Cheng +3Infrared-Visible Image FusionMulti-Source Image Fusion

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology · College of Automation, Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunications · Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation, Kunming University of Science and Technology