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FDNet: An end-to-end fusion decomposition network for infrared and visible images

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  • Jing Di
  • Li Ren
  • Jizhao Liu
  • Wenqing Guo
  • Huaikun Zhange
  • Qidong Liu
  • Jing Lian

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Infrared and visible image fusion can generate a fusion image with clear texture and prominent goals under extreme conditions. This capability is important for all-day climate detection and other tasks. However, most existing fusion methods for extracting features from infrared and visible images are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). These methods often fail to make full use of the salient objects and texture features in the raw image, leading to problems such as insufficient texture details and low contrast in the fused images. To this end, we propose an unsupervised end-to-end Fusion Decomposition Network (FDNet) for infrared and visible image fusion. Firstly, we construct a fusion network that extracts gradient and intensity information from raw images, using multi-scale layers, depthwise separable convolution, and improved convolution block attention module (I-CBAM). Secondly, as the FDNet network is based on the gradient and intensity information of the image for feature extraction, gradient and intensity loss are designed accordingly. Intensity loss adopts the improved Frobenius norm to adjust the weighing values between the fused image and the two raw to select more effective information. The gradient loss introduces an adaptive weight block that determines the optimized objective based on the richness of texture information at the pixel scale, ultimately guiding the fused image to generate more abundant texture information. Finally, we design a single and dual channel convolutional layer decomposition network, which keeps the decomposed image as possible with the input raw image, forcing the fused image to contain richer detail information. Compared with various other representative image fusion methods, our proposed method not only has good subjective vision, but also achieves advanced fusion performance in objective evaluation.

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  • Jing Di & Li Ren & Jizhao Liu & Wenqing Guo & Huaikun Zhange & Qidong Liu & Jing Lian, 2023. "FDNet: An end-to-end fusion decomposition network for infrared and visible images," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(9), pages 1-27, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0290231
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290231
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