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This fusion enriches the structural encoding of temporal dynamics. To ensure optimal performance, Bayesian Optimization is employed to automatically select the ideal image resolution, eliminating the need for manual tuning. Unlike prior methods that rely on individual transformations, our approach concatenates RP, GASF, and GADF into a unified representation and generalizes to multivariate data by stacking transformation channels across sensor dimensions. Experiments on seven univariate datasets show that our method significantly outperforms traditional classifiers such as one-nearest neighbor with Dynamic Time Warping, Shapelet Transform, and RP-based convolutional neural networks. For multivariate tasks, the proposed fusion model achieves macro F1 scores of 91.55% on the UCI Human Activity Recognition dataset and 98.95% on the UCI Room Occupancy Estimation dataset, outperforming standard deep learning baselines. 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