A²RNet: Adversarial Attack Resilient Network for Robust Infrared and Visible Image Fusion

Infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) is a crucial technique for enhancing visual performance by integrating unique information from different modalities into one fused image. Exiting methods pay more attention to conducting fusion with undisturbed data, while overlooking the impact of deliberate interference on the effectiveness of fusion results. To investigate the robustness of fusion models, in this paper, we propose a novel adversarial attack resilient network, called A2RNet. Specifically, we develop an adversarial paradigm with an anti-attack loss function to implement adversarial attacks and training. It is constructed based on the intrinsic nature of IVIF and provide a robust foundation for future research advancements. We adopt a Unet as the pipeline with a transformer-based defensive refinement module (DRM) under this paradigm, which guarantees fused image quality in a robust coarse-to-fine manner. Compared to previous works, our method mitigates the adverse effects of adversarial perturbations, consistently maintaining high-fidelity fusion results. Furthermore, the performance of downstream tasks can also be well maintained under adversarial attacks.

Authors

• Jiawei Li University of Science and Technology Beijing
• Hongwei Yu University of Science and Technology Beijing
• Jiansheng Chen University of Science and Technology Beijing
• Xinlong Ding University of Science and Technology Beijing
• Jinlong Wang University of Science and Technology Beijing
• Jinyuan Liu Dalian University of Technology
• Bochao Zou University of Science and Technology Beijing
• Huimin Ma University of Science and Technology Beijing

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