AFT : Adaptive Fusion Transformer for Visible and Infrared Images

In this paper, an Adaptive Fusion Transformer (AFT) is proposed for unsupervised pixel-level fusion of visible and infrared images. Different from the existing convolutional networks, transformer is adopted to model the relationship of multi-modality images and explore cross-modal interactions in AF...

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Publié dans:IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. - 1992. - 32(2023) vom: 15., Seite 2077-2092
Auteur principal: Chang, Zhihao (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Feng, Zhixi, Yang, Shuyuan, Gao, Quanwei
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2023
Accès à la collection:IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Sujets:Journal Article
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Résumé:In this paper, an Adaptive Fusion Transformer (AFT) is proposed for unsupervised pixel-level fusion of visible and infrared images. Different from the existing convolutional networks, transformer is adopted to model the relationship of multi-modality images and explore cross-modal interactions in AFT. The encoder of AFT uses a Multi-Head Self-attention (MSA) module and Feed Forward (FF) network for feature extraction. Then, a Multi-head Self-Fusion (MSF) module is designed for the adaptive perceptual fusion of the features. By sequentially stacking the MSF, MSA, and FF, a fusion decoder is constructed to gradually locate complementary features for recovering informative images. In addition, a structure-preserving loss is defined to enhance the visual quality of fused images. Extensive experiments are conducted on several datasets to compare our proposed AFT method with 21 popular approaches. The results show that AFT has state-of-the-art performance in both quantitative metrics and visual perception
Description:Date Completed 07.04.2023
Date Revised 07.04.2023
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1941-0042
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2023.3263113