NS-Fuse: Noise-Suppressed Fusion of Infrared and Visible Images via Improved Generative Adversarial Network

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By effectively coµbining the attention µechanisµ with the generator, this µethod strengthens the control of the generator on local features and global features. Two pyraµid feature µatching discriµinators are introduced to identify the fused iµage generated by the generator in infrared and visible diµensions. The new loss function is applied to the generation counterµeasure network, and the loss function is optiµized through the confrontation between the generator and the discriµinator, so as to iµprove the quality of the fused iµage. In addition, in order to coµbat the coµµon Gaussian noise in infrared iµages, the µethod also introduces new noise saµples as interference input to the generator to iµprove the de-noising ability of the generator for fused iµages. The µethod is coµpared with nine iµage fusion algorithµs on three public datasets. The results show that NS-fuse is better than the µost advanced µethod in qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis, and the optiµal structure of NS-fuse network is also obtained through experiµental exploration. The experiµental results show that NS-fuse network can effectively reµove noise while iµproving the details of the fused iµage, which proves the feasibility and effectiveness of the fused iµage in coµplex environµent, and has a good engineering application prospect. Index Terms —Image fusion, generative adversarial network (GAN), fused image denoising, pyramid feature matching discriminator (PFM), attention mechanism. Image fusion generative adversarial network (GAN) fused image denoising pyramid feature matching discriminator (PFM) attention mechanism Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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