Current advances and future perspectives of image fusion: A comprehensive review

S Karim, G Tong, J Li, A Qadir, U Farooq, Y Yu - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
Multiple imaging modalities can be combined to provide more information about the real
world than a single modality alone. Infrared images discriminate targets with respect to their …

Deep learning for pixel-level image fusion: Recent advances and future prospects

Y Liu, X Chen, Z Wang, ZJ Wang, RK Ward, X Wang - Information fusion, 2018 - Elsevier
By integrating the information contained in multiple images of the same scene into one
composite image, pixel-level image fusion is recognized as having high significance in a …

PIAFusion: A progressive infrared and visible image fusion network based on illumination aware

L Tang, J Yuan, H Zhang, X Jiang, J Ma - Information Fusion, 2022 - Elsevier
Infrared and visible image fusion aims to synthesize a single fused image containing salient
targets and abundant texture details even under extreme illumination conditions. However …

Image fusion in the loop of high-level vision tasks: A semantic-aware real-time infrared and visible image fusion network

L Tang, J Yuan, J Ma - Information Fusion, 2022 - Elsevier
Infrared and visible image fusion aims to synthesize a single fused image that not only
contains salient targets and abundant texture details but also facilitates high-level vision …

U2Fusion: A unified unsupervised image fusion network

H Xu, J Ma, J Jiang, X Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study proposes a novel unified and unsupervised end-to-end image fusion network,
termed as U2Fusion, which is capable of solving different fusion problems, including multi …

GANMcC: A generative adversarial network with multiclassification constraints for infrared and visible image fusion

J Ma, H Zhang, Z Shao, P Liang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visible images contain rich texture information, whereas infrared images have significant
contrast. It is advantageous to combine these two kinds of information into a single image so …

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 …

IFCNN: A general image fusion framework based on convolutional neural network

Y Zhang, Y Liu, P Sun, H Yan, X Zhao, L Zhang - Information Fusion, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a general image fusion framework based on the convolutional
neural network, named as IFCNN. Inspired by the transform-domain image fusion …

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 …

An infrared and visible image fusion method based on multi-scale transformation and norm optimization

G Li, Y Lin, X Qu - Information Fusion, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a new infrared and visible image fusion method based on multi-
scale transformation and norm optimization. In this method, a new loss function is designed …