Visible and Infrared Image Fusion Using Deep Learning

Visible and infrared image fusion (VIF) has attracted a lot of interest in recent years due to its application in many tasks, such as object detection, object tracking, scene segmentation, and crowd counting. In addition to conventional VIF methods, an increasing number of deep learning-based VIF methods have been proposed in the last five years. Different types of methods, such as CNN-based, autoencoder-based, GAN-based, and transformer-based methods, have been proposed. Deep learning-based methods have undoubtedly become dominant methods for the VIF task. However, while much progress has been made, the field will benefit from a systematic review of these deep learning-based methods. In this paper we present…