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Main Authors: Liu, Jinyuan, Chen, Zihang, Liu, Zhu, Jiang, Zhiying, Ma, Long, Fan, Xin, Liu, Risheng
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09343
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author Liu, Jinyuan
Chen, Zihang
Liu, Zhu
Jiang, Zhiying
Ma, Long
Fan, Xin
Liu, Risheng
author_facet Liu, Jinyuan
Chen, Zihang
Liu, Zhu
Jiang, Zhiying
Ma, Long
Fan, Xin
Liu, Risheng
contents We engage in the relatively underexplored task named thermal infrared image enhancement. Existing infrared image enhancement methods primarily focus on tackling individual degradations, such as noise, contrast, and blurring, making it difficult to handle coupled degradations. Meanwhile, all-in-one enhancement methods, commonly applied to RGB sensors, often demonstrate limited effectiveness due to the significant differences in imaging models. In sight of this, we first revisit the imaging mechanism and introduce a Progressive Prompt Fusion Network (PPFN). Specifically, the PPFN initially establishes prompt pairs based on the thermal imaging process. For each type of degradation, we fuse the corresponding prompt pairs to modulate the model's features, providing adaptive guidance that enables the model to better address specific degradations under single or multiple conditions. In addition, a Selective Progressive Training (SPT) mechanism is introduced to gradually refine the model's handling of composite cases to align the enhancement process, which not only allows the model to remove camera noise and retain key structural details, but also enhancing the overall contrast of the thermal image. Furthermore, we introduce the most high-quality, multi-scenarios infrared benchmark covering a wide range of scenarios. Extensive experiments substantiate that our approach not only delivers promising visual results under specific degradation but also significantly improves performance on complex degradation scenes, achieving a notable 8.76\% improvement. Code is available at https://github.com/Zihang-Chen/HM-TIR.
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spellingShingle Enhancing Infrared Vision: Progressive Prompt Fusion Network and Benchmark
Liu, Jinyuan
Chen, Zihang
Liu, Zhu
Jiang, Zhiying
Ma, Long
Fan, Xin
Liu, Risheng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We engage in the relatively underexplored task named thermal infrared image enhancement. Existing infrared image enhancement methods primarily focus on tackling individual degradations, such as noise, contrast, and blurring, making it difficult to handle coupled degradations. Meanwhile, all-in-one enhancement methods, commonly applied to RGB sensors, often demonstrate limited effectiveness due to the significant differences in imaging models. In sight of this, we first revisit the imaging mechanism and introduce a Progressive Prompt Fusion Network (PPFN). Specifically, the PPFN initially establishes prompt pairs based on the thermal imaging process. For each type of degradation, we fuse the corresponding prompt pairs to modulate the model's features, providing adaptive guidance that enables the model to better address specific degradations under single or multiple conditions. In addition, a Selective Progressive Training (SPT) mechanism is introduced to gradually refine the model's handling of composite cases to align the enhancement process, which not only allows the model to remove camera noise and retain key structural details, but also enhancing the overall contrast of the thermal image. Furthermore, we introduce the most high-quality, multi-scenarios infrared benchmark covering a wide range of scenarios. Extensive experiments substantiate that our approach not only delivers promising visual results under specific degradation but also significantly improves performance on complex degradation scenes, achieving a notable 8.76\% improvement. Code is available at https://github.com/Zihang-Chen/HM-TIR.
title Enhancing Infrared Vision: Progressive Prompt Fusion Network and Benchmark
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09343