Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 60, Issue 16, 1610013(2023)

Infrared and Visible Image Fusion with Convolutional Neural Network and Transformer

Yang Yang, Zhennan Ren*, and Beichen Li
Author Affiliations
  • School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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    Overall structure of the proposed model
    Concrete structure of the Encoder
    Fusion strategy
    Fusion results of the “Street” image. (a) Infrared image; (b) visible image; (c) RP; (d) Wavelet; (e) ResNet-ZCA; (f) DenseFuse; (g) Dual-Branch; (h) FusionGAN; (i) GANMcC; (j) proposed method
    Fusion results of the “Kaptein_1123” image. (a) Infrared image; (b) visible image; (c) RP; (d) Wavelet; (e) ResNet-ZCA; (f) DenseFuse; (g) Dual-Branch; (h) FusionGAN; (i) GANMcC; (j) proposed method
    Fusion results of the “Kaptein_1654” image. (a) Infrared image; (b) visible image; (c) RP; (d) Wavelet; (e) ResNet-ZCA; (f) DenseFuse; (g) Dual-Branch; (h) FusionGAN; (i) GANMcC; (j) proposed method
    Fusion results of the “Bunker” image. (a) Infrared image; (b) visible image; (c) RP; (d) Wavelet; (e) ResNet-ZCA; (f) DenseFuse; (g) Dual-Branch; (h) FusionGAN; (i) GANMcC; (j) proposed method
    Six objective metrics of different fusion models on TNO dataset. (a) En; (b) SD; (c) SF; (d) MI; (e) SCD; (f) Q_abf
    Subjective results of the ablation experiment
    • Table 1. Average value of objective results of the ablation experiment

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      Table 1. Average value of objective results of the ablation experiment

      ModelEnSDSFMISCDQ_abf
      cnn&mean6.554628.20876.02952.23801.71050.3059
      cnn+trans&mean6.657431.77636.52092.26481.72490.3110
      cnn&spa_fus6.777535.12027.46653.29541.68790.4115
      Proposed method6.963940.72717.95352.69491.76450.3695
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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Aug. 12, 2022

    Accepted: Oct. 27, 2022

    Published Online: Aug. 18, 2023

    The Author Email: Ren Zhennan (Ren2151311@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP222265

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