Title
Attentionfgan: Infrared And Visible Image Fusion Using Attention-Based Generative Adversarial Networks
Abstract
Infrared and visible image fusion aims to describe the same scene from different aspects by combining complementary information of multi-modality images. The existing Generative adversarial networks (GAN) based infrared and visible image fusion methods cannot perceive the most discriminative regions, and hence fail to highlight the typical parts existing in infrared and visible images. To this end, we integrate multi-scale attention mechanism into both generator and discriminator of GAN to fuse infrared and visible images (AttentionFGAN). The multi-scale attention mechanism aims to not only capture comprehensive spatial information to help generator focus on the foreground target information of infrared image and background detail information of visible image, but also constrain the discriminators focus more on the attention regions rather than the whole input image. The generator of AttentionFGAN consists of two multi-scale attention networks and an image fusion network. Two multi-scale attention networks capture the attention maps of infrared and visible images respectively, so that the fusion network can reconstruct the fused image by paying more attention to the typical regions of source images. Besides, two discriminators are adopted to force the fused result keep more intensity and texture information from infrared and visible image respectively. Moreover, to keep more information of attention region from source images, an attention loss function is designed. Finally, the ablation experiments illustrate the effectiveness of the key parts of our method, and extensive qualitative and quantitative experiments on three public datasets demonstrate the advantages and effectiveness of AttentionFGAN compared with the other state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TMM.2020.2997127
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Attention mechanism, generative adversarial networks, infrared and visible image fusion
Journal
23
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1520-9210
3
0.37
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jing Li130.37
Hongtao Huo231.05
chang li328219.50
Renhua Wang430.71
Qi Feng530.37