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New T$^2$exture framework enhances thermal imaging with sparse active acquisition

Researchers have developed a new framework called T$^2$exture for thermal imaging that reconstructs detailed texture sequences from limited active keyframes and numerous passive frames. This method defines thermal texture as the residual between an active source-on observation and its passive source-off state, effectively isolating texture information from background emissions. T$^2$exture achieves this through a two-stage process: first, estimating the unobserved source-off state from neighboring passive frames to establish reliable texture anchors, and second, using these anchors along with passive structural context to reconstruct a dense sequence. The framework demonstrates significant improvements in image quality, outperforming existing visual-inertial odometry baselines on simulated and real-world data. AI

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New T$^2$exture framework enhances thermal imaging with sparse active acquisition

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiashuo Chen, Cheng Dai, Yanan Hu, Fanglin Bao ·

    T$^2$exture: Sparsely Perturbed Thermal-to-Texture Imaging

    arXiv:2608.02192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Thermal imaging remains effective under adverse illumination, yet passive long-wave infrared (LWIR) measurements often lack fine texture. Existing thermal texture imaging approaches commonly rely on spectral sensing or registered au…