Progress on Fusion Technology for Imaging of Dual-color Mid-wave Infrared

Dual-color mid-wave infrared imaging is an important branch of researching the detection of infrared multi-band.With the process of dual-color mid-wave infrared imaging as a clue,according to the thought of " detecting-imaging-image fusion",a series of new researching findings and applications in the fields of dual-color mid-wave are summed up in this paper from the aspects of the development of dual-color mid-wave infrared detector,the application of infrared detection,the analysis on imaging characteristics,and image fusion,as well as some problems in researching and their causes are pointed out.Finally,the future trends are listed,which are exploring differences in feature-driven multi-level fusion method,fusion engineering and creating a new image fusion evaluation system based on the formation mechanism of imaging different characteristics between two sub-bands of MWIR.