Dear Editor.This letter presents a normalization mechanism to effectively fuse infrared and visible images in an encoder-decoder network.Source images are decomposed into source-invariant structure and sourcespecific ...Dear Editor.This letter presents a normalization mechanism to effectively fuse infrared and visible images in an encoder-decoder network.Source images are decomposed into source-invariant structure and sourcespecific detail features.Then,the information of detail features is sufficiently incorporated into the structure features using this normalization mechanism in the decoder,which generates high-contrast fused images with highlighted targets and abundant texture information.Qualitative and quantitative experiments on two challenging datasets demonstrate the superiority of our method over current stateof-the-art methods.展开更多
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62171327,61771353)the first batch of application basic technology and science research foundation in Hubei Nuclear Power Operation Engineering Technology Research Center(B210610)the Hubei Three Gorges Laboratory Open Fund(SC215001)。
文摘Dear Editor.This letter presents a normalization mechanism to effectively fuse infrared and visible images in an encoder-decoder network.Source images are decomposed into source-invariant structure and sourcespecific detail features.Then,the information of detail features is sufficiently incorporated into the structure features using this normalization mechanism in the decoder,which generates high-contrast fused images with highlighted targets and abundant texture information.Qualitative and quantitative experiments on two challenging datasets demonstrate the superiority of our method over current stateof-the-art methods.