Table 6.

Ablation experiment results in the dataset of LLVIP. The best value in each metric is denoted in bold, and the second-best score is highlighted with an underline.

	Configurations	EN	SF	SD	${\mathit{Q}}^{\mathit{AB}/\mathit{F}}$	AG
I	w/o ${\mathcal{L}}_{CC}$	7.5084	0.0662	9.6513	0.4924	5.5903
II	${\mathcal{L}}_{CC}\to {\mathcal{CC}}^2$	7.6911	0.0664	10.2043	0.4870	5.6036
III	${\mathcal{L}}_{CC}\to \mu -\mathcal{CC}$	7.6937	0.0657	10.2064	0.4907	5.5502
IV	Framework → Base layer fusion network	6.9358	0.0497	9.4454	0.5353	3.4039
V	Base layer fusion network → Max	7.6775	0.0659	10.2227	0.4905	5.5412
	Ours	7.6913	0.0667	10.1742	0.4865	5.6376