Journal of Applied Optics, Volume. 46, Issue 3, 481(2025)

UAVs-mounted day and night single-channel natural sensing color thermal imaging technology

Dian SHENG, Weiqi JIN*, Li LI, Xia WANG, and Su QIU
Author Affiliations
  • Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic Imaging Technology and System (Ministry of Education), School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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    Figures & Tables(19)
    Photoelectric pod control of UAV and image samples
    Example of color transfer processing method for grayscale images using regional histogram texture description
    Example of pseudo-color encoding method for infrared images based on HSI space
    Example of colorization for near-infrared images combined with bilateral filtering
    Example of colorization for conditional generative adversarial network structure
    GMA-CycleGAN infrared colorization example
    Network architecture of each component in generator
    Ablation studies of different loss functions and structures for the proposed TIVNet on FLIR dataset and our dataset
    Loss function changes with different λcyc and λTV
    Architecture of non-uniformity correction module
    Framework of RSDM algorithm
    Framework of semantic fusion module
    Results of different algorithms on the FLIR dataset
    Problem of overexposure in visible light images solved by RSDM under special scenarios
    DJI Royal MAVIC 2 dual-light UAV platform
    Infrared to visible color conversion effect for UAV flight detection at night
    Network infrared video images directly into natural sensing of colorization effect
    • Table 1. Ablation experiments in FLIR dataset

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      Table 1. Ablation experiments in FLIR dataset

      MethodFLIR datasetOur data
      NIQENIMAYOLO-scoreNIQENIMAYOLO-score
      Loss18.76644.59780.15728.88634.32240.1571
      Loss27.83764.58840.16627.88434.47820.1580
      Loss36.98264.78940.25267.14444.50800.2433
      Structure17.51954.58840.14337.63324.47240.1570
      Structure27.23444.68320.24557.43324.47820.1880
      Structure36.98264.78940.25267.14444.50800.2433
    • Table 2. Quantitative evaluation comparison on FLIR dataset

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      Table 2. Quantitative evaluation comparison on FLIR dataset

      MethodNIQE ↓LPIPS ↓FID ↓
      CycleGAN7.24470.575683.43
      TICCGAN7.11950.525380.33
      QS-Attn7.33670.633476.69
      TIVNet6.98260.482772.23
      RSDM6.24420.434448.89
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    Dian SHENG, Weiqi JIN, Li LI, Xia WANG, Su QIU. UAVs-mounted day and night single-channel natural sensing color thermal imaging technology[J]. Journal of Applied Optics, 2025, 46(3): 481

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    Paper Information

    Category: SPECIAL COLUMN ON UNMANNED INTELLIGENT SENSING TECHNOLOGY

    Received: Nov. 19, 2024

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: May. 28, 2025

    The Author Email: Weiqi JIN (金伟其)

    DOI:10.5768/JAO202546.0311002

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