Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Based on Blur Suppression Generative Adversarial Network

Abstract

The key to multi-sensor image fusion is the fusion of infrared and visible images. Fusion of infrared and visible images with generative adversarial network (GAN) has great advantages in automatic feature extraction and subjective vision improvement. Due to different principle between infrared and visible imaging, the blur phenomenon of edge and texture is caused in the fusion result of GAN. For this purpose, this paper conducts a novel generative adversarial network with blur suppression. Specifically, the generator uses the residual-in-resid-ual dense block with switchable normalization layer as the elemental network block to retain the infrared intensity and the fused image textural details and avoid fusion artifacts. Furthermore, we design an anti-blur loss function based on Weber local descriptor. Finally, numerous experiments are performed qualitatively and quantitatively on public datasets. Results justify that the proposed method can be used to produce a fusion image with sharp edge and clear texture.