Table 5 Comparison of different attention mechanisms in the ablation study.

From: Dual decoding generative adversarial networks for infrared image enhancement

Attention mechanism

Pixel attention

Multi-head attention

Cross-level attention

AG

11.9877

12.0637

12.5988

IE

6.9873

7.0633

7.1194

PSNR

28.7329

27.6342

28.6535

SSIM

0.8648

0.8634

0.8811

  1. Best values for each metric are in bold.