Abstract: Infrared-visible image patches matching is widely used in many applications, such as vision-based navigation and target recognition. As infrared and visible sensors have different imaging principles, it is a challenge for the infrared-visible image patches matching. The deep learning has achieved state-of-the-art performance in patch-based image matching. However, it mainly focuses on visible image patches matching, which is rarely involved in the infrared-visible image patches. An infrared-visible image patch matching network (InViNet) based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) was proposed. It consisted of two parts: feature extraction and feature matching. It focused more on images content themselves contrast, rather than imaging differences in infrared-visible images. In feature extraction, the contrastive loss and the triplet loss function could maximize the inter-class feature distance and reduce the intra-class distance. In this way, infrared-visible image features for matching were more distinguishable. Besides, the multi-scale spatial feature could provide region and shape information of infrared-visible images. The integration of low-level features and high-level features in InViNet could enhance the feature representation and facilitate subsequent image patches matching. With the improvements above, the accuracy of InViNet increased by 9.8%, compared with the state-of-the-art image matching networks.