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HP-UniIF: Unified Image Fusion Framework Leverages Diffusion Priors

Researchers have introduced HP-UniIF, a novel framework designed for unified image fusion that addresses the limitations of existing systems in handling heterogeneous fusion, degradation restoration, and task-oriented perception simultaneously. The framework utilizes diffusion priors and a hierarchical conditional modulation strategy to decouple these objectives across different network stages. This approach allows for task-specific adaptation through prompt modulation, degradation-aware constraints via a prompt router, and alignment with downstream tasks using an application prompt bank, leading to visually faithful and semantically relevant results. AI

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HP-UniIF: Unified Image Fusion Framework Leverages Diffusion Priors

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Xingxin Xu, Siqi Zhao, Xin Li, Xinjie Yao, Yiming Sun, Pengfei Zhu ·

    HP-UniIF: Hierarchical Prompt Learning for Unified Image Fusion

    arXiv:2608.21786v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General image fusion seeks to integrate complementary information from multiple source images, yet real-world applications often require a single system to support heterogeneous fusion, degradation restoration, and task-oriented per…