"Visualisation of the proposed FusionBooster when applied to the infrared and visilble image fusion approach DDcGAN."

FusionBooster

This is the offical implementation for the paper titled "FusionBooster: A Unified Image Fusion Boosting Paradigm".

Paper

Environment

python 3.7.3
torch 1.9.0
scipy 1.2.0

Test (End to end, you provide two source images, we directly output the enhanced fused image)

Backbone: MUFusion For the IVIF task:

python xxx

Test (Booster Only, you provide the initial fused image, we enhance it)

To use our pre-trained FusionBooster to boost an arbitary IVIF method (e.g., DDcGAN):

python test_booster_only.py

You can modify the path in the "test_booster_only.py" file, to enhance your own fusion results.

Announcement

• 2024-10-14 The code for boosting an arbitary method is available ("test_booster_only.py").
• 2024-10-1 Because some of the fusion methods are realised using the tensorflow framework. Our FusionBooster demo will be implemented based on the MUFusion. You can always use our "detached booster" to enhance your own fusion results.
• 2024-9-30 This work has been accepted by IJCV.

Highlight

• We devise an image fusion booster by analysing the quality of the initial fusion results by means of a dedicated Information Probe.
• The proposed FusionBooster is a general enhancer, which can be applied to various image fusion methods, e.g., traditional or learning-based algorithms, irrespective of the type of fusion task.
• In a new divide-and-conquer image fusion paradigm, the results of the analysis performed by the Information Probe guide the refinement of the fused image.
• The proposed FusionBooster significantly enhances the performance of the SOTA fusion methods and downstream detection tasks, with only a slight increase in the computational overhead.

Citation

If this work is helpful to you, please cite it as:

@article{cheng2024fusionbooster,
  title={FusionBooster: A Unified Image Fusion Boosting Paradigm},
  author={Cheng, Chunyang and Xu, Tianyang and Wu, Xiao-Jun and Li, Hui and Li, Xi and Kittler, Josef},
  journal={International Journal of Computer Vision},
  year={2024}
}