Optics and Precision Engineering, Volume. 33, Issue 8, 1274(2025)

Polarized image feature fusion in power inspection

Mengyao NI1, Yuanlong PENG2, Shang HU1, Longchuan YAN2, Jinkun ZHENG3, and Danhua CAO1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan430074, China
  • 2State Grid Information & Telecommunication Branch, Beijing100761, China
  • 3State Grid JiangXi Electric Power Supply Co., Nanchang0096, China
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    Figures & Tables(22)
    Overall framework of images fusion detection
    Focal plane polarization imaging pixel unit
    Architecture of proposed PDBFNet. (a) shows the structure of the whole algorithm. (b) and (c) give the details of the dense block and the channel attention block
    Illustration of dual feature fusion module
    Intensity image, DoLP image in IPF dataset
    w on image fusion quality in SSIM loss functions
    Comparison of objective quality assessment of IPF
    Fusion samples of comparison algorithms. The area in the box region is enlarged to display the details
    Comparison of objective quality assessment of PolarLITIS
    Example of target detection results using different fusion algorithms to generate graphs
    • Table 1. Comparison of similar datasets

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      Table 1. Comparison of similar datasets

      ImageQuantityResolutionTypeContent
      TNO261768×576IR+RGBMilitary Scene
      M3FD4 5001 024×768IR+RGBRoad Scene
      RoadScene221irregularIR+RGBRoad Scene
      PolarLITIS2 569500×500Polar+RGBRoad Scene
      IPF (ours)3 0001224×1024Polar+RGBElectricity Scene
    • Table 2. Effect of w on image fusion quality in SSIM loss functions

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      Table 2. Effect of w on image fusion quality in SSIM loss functions

      Window SizeENMGSDSSIM
      DoLPS0
      5×57.0459.20250.5730.3820.419
      7×76.68511.06935.7120.5210.330
      9×96.9939.29949.1300.3730.413
      11×117.1048.37057.9810.2920.409
      13×137.01810.32448.2490.4290.394
      15×157.0079.26751.3290.3550.422
      17×177.0499.13949.7620.3670.428
    • Table 3. Effect of multi-scale w on image fusion quality in MASSIM

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      Table 3. Effect of multi-scale w on image fusion quality in MASSIM

      MethodENMGSDSSIM-DoLPSSIM-S0
      MASSIM-Ⅰ7.0388.56950.2230.3450.426
      MASSIM-Ⅱ7.1559.54755.9680.3550.411
      MASSIM-Ⅲ6.9029.10846.1990.3810.432
    • Table 4. Objective quality evaluation of raw images from IPF

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      Table 4. Objective quality evaluation of raw images from IPF

      ImageENSDMG
      S06.14359.39725.162
      DoLP5.77132.91972.400
    • Table 5. Objective quality evaluation of fusion model on IPF

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      Table 5. Objective quality evaluation of fusion model on IPF

      NOFusion methodENSDMGMIQAB/FSSIM
      1NSCT6.92067.30782.0801.8260.4010.513
      CVT6.86358.37676.5571.8300.3920.358
      2DIFNet5.76020.82846.1991.1670.3830.466
      DDcGAN5.63023.31133.9961.0980.3880.438
      PFNet7.11659.39574.6251.7690.3980.492
      PDBFNet7.20676.91766.1702.7440.4010.469
    • Table 6. Objective quality evaluation of the PolarLITIS

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      Table 6. Objective quality evaluation of the PolarLITIS

      ImageENSDMG
      S06.56262.29225.827
      DoLP3.36340.42034.619
    • Table 7. Objective quality evaluation of fusion model on PolarLITIS

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      Table 7. Objective quality evaluation of fusion model on PolarLITIS

      NOFusion methodENSDMGMIQAB/FSSIM
      1NSCT6.76554.18744.8534.0550.3930.518
      2DIFNet5.67320.74316.4353.2140.3810.472
      DDcGAN5.75122.70623.4241.8310.3710.366
      PFNet6.70741.55739.6863.5720.3820.534
      PDBFNet6.78752.32839.0243.7800.3830.537
    • Table 8. Results of structure ablation experiment

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      Table 8. Results of structure ablation experiment

      GroupDescriptionENMGSDSSIM
      DoLPS0
      APoint Plus7.1279.35953.1890.3370.219
      Concat7.1148.83751.8130.3340.225
      Only-Spatial Fusion7.0829.17051.6840.3500.226
      Only-Channel Fusion7.0059.21249.7550.3470.223
      BNo SE7.1519.30754.2080.3420.225
      PDBFNet(ours)7.1559.54755.9680.3410.231
    • Table 9. Results of Loss function ablation experiment

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      Table 9. Results of Loss function ablation experiment

      LossSSIMLossmaeENMGSDSSIM
      DoLPS0
      SingleAverage7.0489.02552.6520.3960.331
      Win-setsAverage7.2279.59057.7700.3960.360
      SingleWeight7.19610.06157.9420.3540.344
      Win-setsWeight7.24810.11855.1580.4420.388
    • Table 10. Object detection results of comparative periment

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      Table 10. Object detection results of comparative periment

      NetworkParams/MTime/msPrecisionRecallmAP 0.5
      Yolov5-n1.910.50.8380.8320.874
      Yolov5-s7.222.30.8910.8540.902
      Yolov5-m21.250.80.9150.8610.911
      Yolov8-n3.28.70.8730.8260.877
      Yolov8-s11.226.20.8780.850.882
      Yolov11-s9.4260.8860.8740.903
    • Table 11. Target detection results using raw images

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      Table 11. Target detection results using raw images

      ImagemAP 0.5PrecisionRecall
      S00.8910.8540.902
      DoLP0.8520.8430.873
    • Table 12. Target detection results using fused images

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      Table 12. Target detection results using fused images

      Fusion methodmAP 0.5PrecisionRecall
      NSCT0.8610.8660.898
      CVT0.8510.8710.887
      DIFNet0.8580.8480.885
      DDcGAN0.8740.8520.889
      PFNet0.8520.8120.863
      PDBFNet0.9150.8730.916
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    Received: Nov. 8, 2024

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    Published Online: Jul. 1, 2025

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    DOI:10.37188/OPE.20253308.1274

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