This list is kept in reverse chronological order. Citation counts shown in the highlighted notes were refreshed from my personal Google Scholar profile on July 18, 2026, while the live profile total remains available on Google Scholar.
2026
CVPR
VideoFusion: A Spatio-Temporal Collaborative Network for Multi-modal Video Fusion and Restoration
Linfeng Tang, Yeda Wang, Meiqi Gong, and 7 more authors
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
Rethinking the necessity of image fusion in high-level vision tasks: A practical infrared and visible image fusion network based on progressive semantic injection and scene fidelity
Linfeng Tang, Hao Zhang, Han Xu, and 1 more author
Information Fusion, 2023
Progressive semantic injection and scene fidelity for task-oriented fusion; Google Scholar cited by 410 (Jul. 18, 2026); ESI Hot Paper; ESI Highly Cited Paper
Image fusion in the loop of high-level vision tasks: A semantic-aware real-time infrared and visible image fusion network
Linfeng Tang, Jiteng Yuan, and Jiayi Ma
Information Fusion, 2022
Semantic-aware real-time infrared-visible fusion with high-level task feedback; Information Fusion Best Paper Award 2024; Google Scholar cited by 1183 (Jul. 18, 2026); ESI Hot Paper; ESI Highly Cited Paper
SwinFusion: Cross-domain Long-range Learning for General Image Fusion via Swin Transformer
Jiayi Ma, Linfeng Tang, Fan Fan, and 3 more authors
IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2022
Cross-domain long-range modeling with a Swin Transformer for general image fusion; IEEE/CAA JAS 2023 Best Paper Award, sole annual winner; Google Scholar cited by 1582 (Jul. 18, 2026); ESI Hot Paper; ESI Highly Cited Paper
IEEE/CAA JAS 2023 Best Paper Award, sole annual winner
Inf. Fusion
PIAFusion: A progressive infrared and visible image fusion network based on illumination aware
Linfeng Tang, Jiteng Yuan, Hao Zhang, and 2 more authors
Information Fusion, 2022
Progressive infrared-visible fusion guided by illumination conditions; Google Scholar cited by 1265 (Jul. 18, 2026); ESI Hot Paper; ESI Highly Cited Paper
SuperFusion: A Versatile Image Registration and Fusion Network with Semantic Awareness
Linfeng Tang, Yuxin Deng, Yong Ma, and 2 more authors
IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2022
Joint image registration and semantics-aware fusion for spatially misaligned inputs; Google Scholar cited by 504 (Jul. 18, 2026); ESI Hot Paper; ESI Highly Cited Paper
Mask-DiFuser: A Masked Diffusion Model for Unified Unsupervised Image FusionIEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2026Masked diffusion modeling that unifies multiple unsupervised image-fusion tasks; Google Scholar cited by 51 (Jul. 18, 2026); ESI Highly Cited Paper
DSPFusion: Image Fusion via Degradation and Semantic Dual-Prior GuidancearXiv preprint arXiv:2503.23355, 2025
Rethinking the necessity of image fusion in high-level vision tasks: A practical infrared and visible image fusion network based on progressive semantic injection and scene fidelityInformation Fusion, 2023Progressive semantic injection and scene fidelity for task-oriented fusion; Google Scholar cited by 410 (Jul. 18, 2026); ESI Hot Paper; ESI Highly Cited Paper
Image fusion in the loop of high-level vision tasks: A semantic-aware real-time infrared and visible image fusion networkInformation Fusion, 2022Semantic-aware real-time infrared-visible fusion with high-level task feedback; Information Fusion Best Paper Award 2024; Google Scholar cited by 1183 (Jul. 18, 2026); ESI Hot Paper; ESI Highly Cited Paper
SwinFusion: Cross-domain Long-range Learning for General Image Fusion via Swin TransformerIEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2022Cross-domain long-range modeling with a Swin Transformer for general image fusion; IEEE/CAA JAS 2023 Best Paper Award, sole annual winner; Google Scholar cited by 1582 (Jul. 18, 2026); ESI Hot Paper; ESI Highly Cited Paper
SuperFusion: A Versatile Image Registration and Fusion Network with Semantic AwarenessIEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2022Joint image registration and semantics-aware fusion for spatially misaligned inputs; Google Scholar cited by 504 (Jul. 18, 2026); ESI Hot Paper; ESI Highly Cited Paper
STDFusionNet: An Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Network Based on Salient Target DetectionIEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2021Salient-target detection for preserving critical thermal targets and structures; Google Scholar cited by 686 (Jul. 18, 2026); ESI Highly Cited Paper