The invention discloses an
infrared polarization multi-dimensional fusion imaging method based on nonlinear mapping, and belongs to the technical field of photoelectric detection and computational imaging. Performing Stokes vector solution on the input detection data to obtain a total intensity component, a polarization degree component and a polarization angle component; performing logarithmic
domain mapping and gradient calculation on the total intensity component, and performing nonlinear enhancement based on local statistical characteristics on the polarization degree component to obtain an enhanced polarization degree; in an HSV
color space, constructing a brightness component according to a logarithm
domain mapping result, constructing a saturation component by combining the enhanced polarization degree and gradient information, constructing a
hue component according to polarization angle information, and performing threshold constraint on the
hue component based on the enhanced polarization degree; and a multi-dimensional
fusion image is generated through
color space inverse transformation from HSV to RGB. According to the method, background clutters are effectively suppressed, the image information entropy and the average gradient are remarkably improved, and high-contrast clear imaging of a weak and
small target in a complex scene is realized.