Abstract:To address the detection difficulties of infrared images such as low signal-to-noise ratio, blurred edge information, and clutter interference, a generative adversarial network infrared image denoising method based on subspace projection is proposed. Firstly, the generator consists of a U-Net structure and a subspace attention network. The encoding stage extracts image features through 4 layers of downsampling, while the decoding stage reconstructs the image through 4 layers of upsampling. Secondly, a subspace projection network is added to each skip connection, and the feature maps of each layer are combined with upsampled images from the same layer to form a subspace projection network for image feature fusion. The projected feature maps are then fused with the original high-level features to achieve image denoising. Finally, the image is input to the discriminator for adversarial training to obtain a clear reconstructed image.The comparative experiments with BM3D, DnCNN, and other algorithms show that the improved generative adversarial network algorithm has better objective evaluation index effects, with PSNR and SSIM reaching 34.36dB and 0.9852dB, respectively, thus verifying the good denoising performance of this algorithm.