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However, current image fusion methods frequently treat common features between modalities (modality-commonality) and unique features from each modality (modality-distinctiveness) equally during processing, neglecting their distinct characteristics. Therefore, we propose a DDFNet-A for infrared and visible image fusion. DDFNet-A addresses this limitation by decomposing infrared and visible input images into low-frequency features depicting modality-commonality and high-frequency features representing modality-distinctiveness. The extracted low and high features were then fused using distinct methods. In particular, we propose a hybrid attention block (HAB) to improve high-frequency feature extraction ability and a base feature fusion (BFF) module to enhance low-frequency feature fusion ability. Experiments were conducted on public infrared and visible image fusion datasets MSRS, TNO, and VIFB to validate the performance of the proposed network. DDFNet-A achieved competitive results on three datasets, with EN, MI, VIFF, QAB\/F, FMI, and Qs metrics reaching the best performance on the TNO dataset, achieving 7.1217, 2.1620, 0.7739, 0.5426, 0.8129, and 0.9079, respectively. These values are 2.06%, 11.95%, 21.04%, 21.52%, 1.04%, and 0.09% higher than those of the second-best methods, respectively. The experimental results confirm that our DDFNet-A achieves better fusion performance than state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16101795","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,20]],"date-time":"2024-05-20T03:36:42Z","timestamp":1716176202000},"page":"1795","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["DDFNet-A: Attention-Based Dual-Branch Feature Decomposition Fusion Network for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Qiancheng","family":"Wei","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ying","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaoping","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ben","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qiya","family":"Su","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Institute of Remote Sensing Equipment, Beijing 100005, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Muyao","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Institute of Remote Sensing Equipment, Beijing 100005, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2706","DOI":"10.1109\/TMM.2017.2711422","article-title":"An Adaptive Fusion Algorithm for Visible and Infrared Videos Based on Entropy and the Cumulative Distribution of Gray Levels","volume":"19","author":"Hu","year":"2017","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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