Multi-modal image fusion (MMIF) aims to integrate complementary information from heterogeneous sensor modalities. However, substantial cross-modality discrepancies hinder joint scene representation and lead to semantic degradation in the fused output. To address this limitation, we propose C2MFuse, a novel framework designed to preserve content while ensuring cross-modality consistency. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first MMIF approach to explicitly disentangle style and content representations across modalities for image fusion. C2MFuse introduces a content-preserving style normalization mechanism that suppresses modality-specific variations while maintaining the underlying scene structure. The normalized features are then progressively aggregated to enhance fine-grained details and improve content completeness. In light of the lack of ground truth and the inherent ambiguity of the fused distribution, we further align the fused representation with a well-defined source modality, thereby enhancing semantic consistency and reducing distributional uncertainty. Additionally, we introduce an adaptive consistency loss with learnable transformation, which provides dynamic, modality-aware supervision by enforcing global consistency across heterogeneous inputs. Extensive experiments on five datasets across three representative MMIF tasks demonstrate that C2MFuse achieves efficient and high-quality fusion, surpasses existing methods, and generalizes effectively to downstream visual applications.

Recent advances in diffusion models have substantially improved text-driven image editing. However, existing frameworks based on discrete textual tokens struggle to support continuous control over camera parameters and smooth transitions in visual effects. These limitations hinder their applications to realistic, camera-aware, and fine-grained editing tasks. In this paper, we present CamEdit, a diffusion-based framework for photorealistic image editing that enables continuous and semantically meaningful manipulation of common camera parameters such as aperture and shutter speed. CamEdit incorporates a continuous parameter prompting mechanism and a parameter-aware modulation module that guides the model in smoothly adjusting focal plane, aperture, and shutter speed, reflecting the effects of varying camera settings within the diffusion process. To support supervised learning in this setting, we introduce CamEdit50K, a dataset specifically designed for photorealistic image editing with continuous camera parameter settings. It contains over 50k image pairs combining real and synthetic data with dense camera parameter variations across diverse scenes. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CamEdit enables flexible, consistent, and high-fidelity image editing, achieving state-of-the-art performance in camera-aware visual manipulation and fine-grained photographic control.

Nonblind image deconvolution/deblurring aims at restoring sharp images from their noisy blurred versions using an associated blur kernel with potential inaccuracy. Current deep learning (DL) models of nonblind image deconvolution (NBID) predominantly reply on ground truth (GT) images for supervision, which restricts their applicability to certain real-world scenarios such as scientific imaging. This article proposes a fully unsupervised DL approach for NBID, utilizing a GT-free end-to-end training process that adeptly handles both measurement noise and kernel error. Specifically, in the absence of GT images, a self-reconstruction loss is proposed to handle measurement noise, by effectively emulating its supervised counterpart. Recognizing the likely occurrence of kernel error during both training and testing data, we introduce a self-ensemble loss function and an ensemble inference scheme, anchored by a phase-keeping kernel perturbation strategy. Furthermore, a shifting mechanism is integrated so as to the loss functions to resolve the shift ambiguity caused by kernel error. Extensive experiments show the superiority of our proposed approach over existing unsupervised NBID methods, as well as its competitive performance against some of the recent supervised methods.

Image reconstruction from incomplete measurements is one basic task in imaging. While supervised deep learning has emerged as a powerful tool for image reconstruction in recent years, its applicability is limited by its prerequisite on a large number of latent images for model training. To extend the application of deep learning to the imaging tasks where acquisition of latent images is challenging, this article proposes an unsupervised deep learning method that trains a deep model for image reconstruction with the access limited to measurement data. We develop a Siamese network whose twin sub-networks perform reconstruction cooperatively on a pair of complementary spaces: the null space of the measurement matrix and the range space of its pseudo inverse. The Siamese network is trained by a self-supervised loss with three terms: a data consistency loss over available measurements in the range space, a data consistency loss between intermediate results in the null space, and a mutual consistency loss on the predictions of the twin sub-networks in the full space. The proposed method is applied to four imaging tasks from different applications, and extensive experiments have shown its advantages over existing unsupervised solutions.

Compressive sampling (CS) is an efficient technique for imaging. This paper proposes a ground-truth (GT) free meta-learning method for CS, which leverages both ex-ternal and internal deep learning for unsupervised high-quality image reconstruction. The proposed method first trains a deep neural network (NN) via external meta-learning using only CS measurements, and then efficiently adapts the trained model to a test sample for exploiting sample-specific internal characteristic for performance gain. The meta-learning and model adaptation are built on an improved Stein's unbiased risk estimator (iSURE) that provides efficient computation and effective guidance for accurate prediction in the range space of the adjoint of the measurement matrix. To improve the learning and adaption on the null space of the measurement matrix, a modi-fied model-agnostic meta-learning scheme and a null-space consistency loss are proposed. In addition, a bias tuning scheme for unrolling NNs is introduced for further acceler-ation of model adaption. Experimental results have demonstrated that the proposed GT-free method performs well and can even compete with supervised methods.

Hyperspectral image (HSI) reconstruction is about recovering a 3D HSI from its 2D snapshot measurements, to which deep models have become a promising approach. However, most existing studies train deep models on large amounts of organized data, the collection of which can be difficult in many applications. This paper leverages the image priors encoded in untrained neural networks (NNs) to have a self-supervised learning method which is free from training datasets while adaptive to the statistics of a test sample. To induce better image priors and prevent the NN overfitting undesired solutions, we construct an unrolling-based NN equipped with fractional max pooling (FMP). Furthermore, the FMP is used with randomness to enable self-ensemble for reconstruction accuracy improvement. In the experiments, our self-supervised learning approach enjoys high-quality reconstruction and outperforms recent methods including the supervised ones.

Image captioning (IC) systems, which automatically generate a text description of the salient objects in an image (real or synthetic), have seen great progress over the past few years due to the development of deep neural networks. IC plays an indispensable role in human society, for example, labeling massive photos for scientific studies and assisting visually-impaired people in perceiving the world. However, even the top-notch IC systems, such as Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services and IBM Image Caption Generator, may return incorrect results, leading to the omission of important objects, deep misunderstanding, and threats to personal safety.