17 August 2024 Edge-oriented unrolling network for infrared and visible image fusion
Tian-Hui Yuan, Zongliang Gan, Changhong Chen, Ziguan Cui
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Abstract

Under unfavorable conditions, fusion images of infrared and visible images often lack edge contrast and details. To address this issue, we propose an edge-oriented unrolling network, which comprises a feature extraction network and a feature fusion network. In our approach, after respective enhancement processes, the original infrared/visible image pair with their enhancement version is combined as the input to get more prior information acquisition. First, the feature extraction network consists of four independent iterative edge-oriented unrolling feature extraction networks based on the edge-oriented deep unrolling residual module (EURM), in which the convolutions in the EURM modules are replaced with edge-oriented convolution blocks to enhance the edge features. Then, the convolutional feature fusion network with differential structure is proposed to obtain the final fusion result, through utilizing the concatenate operation to map multidimensional features. In addition, the loss function in the fusion network is optimized to balance multiple features with significant differences in order to achieve better visual effect. Experimental results on multiple datasets demonstrate that the proposed method produces competitive fusion images as evaluated subjectively and objectively, with balanced luminance, sharper edge, and better details.

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Tian-Hui Yuan, Zongliang Gan, Changhong Chen, and Ziguan Cui "Edge-oriented unrolling network for infrared and visible image fusion," Journal of Electronic Imaging 33(4), 043051 (17 August 2024). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.33.4.043051
Received: 30 January 2024; Accepted: 29 July 2024; Published: 17 August 2024
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KEYWORDS
Image fusion

Image enhancement

Infrared imaging

Infrared radiation

Visible radiation

Feature extraction

Feature fusion

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