The invention relates to the technical field of
infrared image processing, and discloses an
infrared image enhancement method based on
radiation priori and a
generative adversarial network, which comprises the following steps of: constructing a training
data set of non-paired low-quality
infrared images and high-quality infrared images, constructing a bidirectional cyclic
generative adversarial network, pre-establishing infrared
radiation quantity databases of different materials, and constructing a training
data set of the non-paired low-quality infrared images and high-quality infrared images; the method comprises the following steps: adding a material coding
branch in a generative network, inputting the material coding
branch in a mapping
database, obtaining
radiation coding characteristics, constructing a composite
loss function, and carrying out feedback optimization on a
discriminant network and the generative network by using a training
data set through the composite
loss function to obtain a trained overall enhanced network. The
infrared image to be enhanced is input into the enhancement network, the enhanced
infrared image is output, and the defects that an existing
infrared image enhancement method depends on
paired data, material radiation characteristics are ignored, enhanced image
semantics are inconsistent and the like are overcome.