MagicFuse: Single Image Fusion for Visual and Semantic Reinforcement

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Auteurs principaux: Zhang, Hao, Zha, Yanping, Li, Zizhuo, Gong, Meiqi, Ma, Jiayi
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author Zhang, Hao
Zha, Yanping
Li, Zizhuo
Gong, Meiqi
Ma, Jiayi
author_facet Zhang, Hao
Zha, Yanping
Li, Zizhuo
Gong, Meiqi
Ma, Jiayi
contents This paper focuses on a highly practical scenario: how to continue benefiting from the advantages of multi-modal image fusion under harsh conditions when only visible imaging sensors are available. To achieve this goal, we propose a novel concept of single-image fusion, which extends conventional data-level fusion to the knowledge level. Specifically, we develop MagicFuse, a novel single image fusion framework capable of deriving a comprehensive cross-spectral scene representation from a single low-quality visible image. MagicFuse first introduces an intra-spectral knowledge reinforcement branch and a cross-spectral knowledge generation branch based on the diffusion models. They mine scene information obscured in the visible spectrum and learn thermal radiation distribution patterns transferred to the infrared spectrum, respectively. Building on them, we design a multi-domain knowledge fusion branch that integrates the probabilistic noise from the diffusion streams of these two branches, from which a cross-spectral scene representation can be obtained through successive sampling. Then, we impose both visual and semantic constraints to ensure that this scene representation can satisfy human observation while supporting downstream semantic decision-making. Extensive experiments show that our MagicFuse achieves visual and semantic representation performance comparable to or even better than state-of-the-art fusion methods with multi-modal inputs, despite relying solely on a single degraded visible image. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/zhayanping/MagicFuse.
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spellingShingle MagicFuse: Single Image Fusion for Visual and Semantic Reinforcement
Zhang, Hao
Zha, Yanping
Li, Zizhuo
Gong, Meiqi
Ma, Jiayi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
This paper focuses on a highly practical scenario: how to continue benefiting from the advantages of multi-modal image fusion under harsh conditions when only visible imaging sensors are available. To achieve this goal, we propose a novel concept of single-image fusion, which extends conventional data-level fusion to the knowledge level. Specifically, we develop MagicFuse, a novel single image fusion framework capable of deriving a comprehensive cross-spectral scene representation from a single low-quality visible image. MagicFuse first introduces an intra-spectral knowledge reinforcement branch and a cross-spectral knowledge generation branch based on the diffusion models. They mine scene information obscured in the visible spectrum and learn thermal radiation distribution patterns transferred to the infrared spectrum, respectively. Building on them, we design a multi-domain knowledge fusion branch that integrates the probabilistic noise from the diffusion streams of these two branches, from which a cross-spectral scene representation can be obtained through successive sampling. Then, we impose both visual and semantic constraints to ensure that this scene representation can satisfy human observation while supporting downstream semantic decision-making. Extensive experiments show that our MagicFuse achieves visual and semantic representation performance comparable to or even better than state-of-the-art fusion methods with multi-modal inputs, despite relying solely on a single degraded visible image. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/zhayanping/MagicFuse.
title MagicFuse: Single Image Fusion for Visual and Semantic Reinforcement
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01760