Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, Volume. 44, Issue 2, 251(2025)

Infrared remote sensing image super-resolution network by integration of dense connection and multi-attention mechanism

Xin-hao XU1, Jun WANG1,2, Feng WANG1、*, and Sheng-li SUN2
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  • 1Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves(MoE),School of Information Science and Technology,Fudan University,Shanghai 200433,China
  • 2Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Shanghai 200083,China
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    Space-borne infrared remote sensing images have significant applications in environmental monitoring and military reconnaissance. Nonetheless, due to technological limitations, atmospheric disturbances, and sensor noise, these images suffer from insufficient resolution and blurred texture details, severely restricting the accuracy of subsequent analysis and processing. To address these issues, a new super-resolution generative adversarial network model is proposed. This model integrates dense connections with the Swin Transformer architecture to achieve effective cross-layer feature transmission and contextual information utilization while enhancing the model's global feature extraction capabilities. Furthermore, the traditional residual connection is improved with multi-scale channel attention-based feature fusion, allowing the network to more flexibly integrate multi-scale features, thereby enhancing the quality and efficiency of feature fusion. A joint loss function is constructed to comprehensively optimize the performance of the generator. Comparative tests on different datasets demonstrate significant improvements with the proposed algorithm. Furthermore, the super-resolved images exhibit higher performance in downstream tasks such as object detection, confirming the effectiveness and application potential of the algorithm in space-borne infrared remote sensing image super-resolution.

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    Xin-hao XU, Jun WANG, Feng WANG, Sheng-li SUN. Infrared remote sensing image super-resolution network by integration of dense connection and multi-attention mechanism[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 2025, 44(2): 251

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    Paper Information

    Category: Interdisciplinary Research on Infrared Science

    Received: Jul. 23, 2024

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 14, 2025

    The Author Email: WANG Feng (fengwang@fudan.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2025.02.013

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