1. Introduction

2. Basics of Infrared Imagery  
   2.1. Types of IR  
   2.2. Infrared Radiometry and Detection  

3. Tools and Algorithms for Modelling Atmospheric Transfer Function  

4. Datasets  
   4.1. OSU Databases  
   4.2. ATR Algorithm Development Image Database  
   4.3. Terravi Databases  
   4.4. CSIR-CSIO Moving Object Thermal Infrared Imagery Dataset (MOTIID)  
   4.5. Maritime Imagery in the Visible and Infrared Spectrums  
   4.6. Thermal Infrared Video Benchmark for Visual Analysis  
   4.7. Teledyne FLIR Thermal Sensing for ADAS  
   4.8. LLVIP A Visible-Infrared Paired Dataset for Low-light Vision  
   4.9. The TNO Multiband Image Data Collection  
   4.10. The Linköping Thermal InfraRed (LTIR) Dataset  
   4.11. ICRA Thermal Infrared Dataset  
   4.12. Multi Spectral Pedestrian Detection Dataset  
   4.13. Other Datasets  

5. Synthetic Infrared Scene Simulation Tools  

6. Methods of Synthetic IR Image/Video Generation  
   6.1. Computational Methods  
   6.2. Learning-Based Methods  

7. Challenges in Synthetic Infrared Image Synthesis

8. Conclusion