A survey of infrared and visual image fusion methods

X **, Q Jiang, S Yao, D Zhou, R Nie, J Hai… - Infrared Physics & …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Infrared (IR) and visual (VI) image fusion is designed to fuse multiple source images into a
comprehensive image to boost imaging quality and reduce redundancy information, which is …

[HTML][HTML] Infrared and visible image fusion techniques based on deep learning: A review

C Sun, C Zhang, N **ong - Electronics, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Infrared and visible image fusion technologies make full use of different image features
obtained by different sensors, retain complementary information of the source images during …

DDcGAN: A dual-discriminator conditional generative adversarial network for multi-resolution image fusion

J Ma, H Xu, J Jiang, X Mei… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we proposed a new end-to-end model, termed as dual-discriminator
conditional generative adversarial network (DDcGAN), for fusing infrared and visible images …

Classification saliency-based rule for visible and infrared image fusion

H Xu, H Zhang, J Ma - IEEE Transactions on Computational …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing image fusion methods always use hand-crafted fusion rules due to the
uninterpretability of deep feature maps, which restrict the performance of networks and result …

Infrared and visible image fusion methods and applications: A survey

J Ma, Y Ma, C Li - Information fusion, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Infrared images can distinguish targets from their backgrounds based on the radiation
difference, which works well in all-weather and all-day/night conditions. By contrast, visible …

FusionGAN: A generative adversarial network for infrared and visible image fusion

J Ma, W Yu, P Liang, C Li, J Jiang - Information fusion, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Infrared images can distinguish targets from their backgrounds on the basis of difference in
thermal radiation, which works well at all day/night time and under all weather conditions. By …

GAN-FM: Infrared and visible image fusion using GAN with full-scale skip connection and dual Markovian discriminators

H Zhang, J Yuan, X Tian, J Ma - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A good result of infrared and visible image fusion should not only maintain significant
contrast for distinguishing targets from the backgrounds, but also contain rich scene textures …

SEDRFuse: A symmetric encoder–decoder with residual block network for infrared and visible image fusion

L Jian, X Yang, Z Liu, G Jeon, M Gao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image fusion is an important task for computer vision as a diverse range of applications are
benefiting from the fusion operation. The existing image fusion methods are largely …

Degradation-resistant unfolding network for heterogeneous image fusion

C He, K Li, G Xu, Y Zhang, R Hu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - openaccess.thecvf.com
Heterogeneous image fusion (HIF) techniques aim to enhance image quality by merging
complementary information from images captured by different sensors. Among these …

THFuse: An infrared and visible image fusion network using transformer and hybrid feature extractor

J Chen, J Ding, Y Yu, W Gong - Neurocomputing, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Infrared and visible image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from different
types of images into one image. The existing image fusion methods are primarily based on …