SSPFusion: A Semantic Structure-Preserving Approach for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14745v2
• Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 05:36:09 GMT
• Title: SSPFusion: A Semantic Structure-Preserving Approach for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
• Authors: Qiao Yang, Yu Zhang, Jian Zhang, Zijing Zhao, Shunli Zhang, Jinqiao Wang, Junzhe Chen
• Abstract summary: Most existing learning-based infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) methods exhibit massive redundant information in the fusion images. We propose a semantic structure-preserving approach for IVIF, namely SSPFusion. Our method is able to generate high-quality fusion images from pairs of infrared and visible images, which can boost the performance of downstream computer-vision tasks.
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• Abstract: Most existing learning-based infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) methods exhibit massive redundant information in the fusion images, i.e., yielding edge-blurring effect or unrecognizable for object detectors. To alleviate these issues, we propose a semantic structure-preserving approach for IVIF, namely SSPFusion. At first, we design a Structural Feature Extractor (SFE) to extract the structural features of infrared and visible images. Then, we introduce a multi-scale Structure-Preserving Fusion (SPF) module to fuse the structural features of infrared and visible images, while maintaining the consistency of semantic structures between the fusion and source images. Owing to these two effective modules, our method is able to generate high-quality fusion images from pairs of infrared and visible images, which can boost the performance of downstream computer-vision tasks. Experimental results on three benchmarks demonstrate that our method outperforms eight state-of-the-art image fusion methods in terms of both qualitative and quantitative evaluations. The code for our method, along with additional comparison results, will be made available at: https://github.com/QiaoYang-CV/SSPFUSION.

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