MMAE: A universal image fusion method via mask attention mechanism

Xiangxiang Wang, Lixing Fang, Junli Zhao, Zhenkuan Pan, Hui Li, Yi Li

Abstract: Highlights•A universal fusion method for generating high-quality fused images is proposed.•Information filtering and fusion control strategy is effective.•Improved mask autoencoder filters redundant information.•The patch attention mechanism corrects the masked regions.•The mask attention mechanism amplifies modal differences and reconstructs images.