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FusionCNN: a remote sensing image fusion algorithm based on deep convolutional neural networks

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In remote sensing image fusion field, traditional algorithms based on the human-made fusion rules are severely sensitive to the source images. In this paper, we proposed an image fusion algorithm using convolutional neural networks (FusionCNN). The fusion model implicitly represents a fusion rule whose inputs are a pair of source images and the output is a fused image with end-to-end property. As no datasets can be used to train FusionCNN in remote sensing field, we constructed a new dataset from a natural image set to approximate MS and Pan images. In order to obtain higher fusion quality, low frequency information of MS is used to enhance the Pan image in the pre-processing step. The method proposed in this paper overcomes the shortcomings of the traditional fusion methods in which the fusion rules are artificially formulated, because it learns an adaptive strong robust fusion function through a large amount of training data. In this paper, Landsat and Quickbird satellite data are used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. Experimental results show that the proposed fusion algorithm is superior to the comparative algorithms in terms of both subjective and objective evaluation.

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Acknowledgements

The work was supported by National Science & Technology Pillar Program of China (Grant No. 2012BAH48F02), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61272209, 61801190), Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province (Grant No. 20180101055JC), Outstanding Young Talent Foundation of Jilin Province (Grant No. 20180520029JH) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2017M611323). The authors would like to thank Dr. Shuang Yu for her help on technical editing of the manuscript, and Prof. Xiaoying Sun for scientific advices.

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    Fajie Ye, Xiongfei Li & Xiaoli Zhang

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    Fajie Ye, Xiongfei Li & Xiaoli Zhang

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Ye, F., Li, X. & Zhang, X. FusionCNN: a remote sensing image fusion algorithm based on deep convolutional neural networks. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 14683–14703 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6850-3

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