基于非下采样轮廓波变换和直觉模糊集的红外与可见光图像融合

针对传统图像融合方法造成的边缘模糊、细节损失、图像对比度与清晰度容易降低等问题,利用非下采样轮廓波变换,提出一种基于直觉模糊集和区域对比度的红外与可见光图像融合算法.首先,使用非下采样轮廓波变换将源图像分解,分别得到源图像的高频和低频成分.其次,利用直觉模糊集灵活准确描述模糊概念的特性,构建双高斯隶属函数对低频成分进行融合;利用区域对比度详细描述图像纹理信息的特点,采用多区域特征对比度结合距离分析的融合规则,对高频成分进行融合.最后使用非下采样轮廓波逆变换得到融合图像.实验结果表明,与其它融合算法相比,该算法提高了图像对比度,保留了源图像中的边缘和细节信息,且得到的融合结果具有更优的客观评价值.     

基于稀疏特征的红外与可见光图像融合

针对传统的红外与可见光图像融合算法提取目标信息不突出的问题,提出一种基于非下采样剪切波变换和稀疏结构特征的融合方法.首先用非下采样剪切波变换分解源图像;然后通过主成分分析提取低频子带系数中边缘和轮廓等显著特征,引导低频成分融合规则的设计,同时基于结构信息的稀疏性指导融合高频子带系数;最后经过非下采样剪切波变换逆变换得到融合后的图像.实验结果表明,该方法在保留可见光图像背景信息的基础上,突显了红外图像的结构信息,有效提高了融合效果.     

一种基于对比度增强和柯西模糊函数的红外与弱可见光图像融合算法

由于可见光图像在低光照环境下其可视性较差,为了提高红外与弱可见光图像融合的效果,提出了一种基于对比度增强和柯西模糊函数的图像融合算法.首先用改进的引导滤波自适应增强提高弱可见光图像暗区域的可视性;其次,利用非下采样剪切波变换将红外和增强后的弱可见光图像分解,得到相应的低频和高频子带;再后,分别用直觉模糊集构建柯西隶属函数和自适应双通道脉冲发放皮层模型对低频、高频子带进行融合;最后,使用非下采样剪切波变换对融合得到的高低频子带进行逆变换重构得到融合图像.实验结果表明,与其它融合算法相比,该算法有效地增强了弱可见光图像的暗区域,保留了更多的背景信息,从而提高了融合图像的对比度和清晰度.     

一种基于非下采样Contourlet变换的运动点目标背景抑制算法

为了解决机载红外预警探测系统检测地面运动点目标时的结构化背景抑制,提出了一种基于非下采样Contourlet变换的新算法.算法采用非下采样Contourlet变换对原始图像进行多层分解,然后对低频子带和高频子带采用不同的方法处理,最后对各子带进行重构即可得到背景抑制后图像.与数学形态学Top-hat算法比较,实验结果表明本文所提算法能有效地抑制图像背景,从而较好地提高图像的信噪比和对比度.     

基于NSSCT的红外与可见光图像融合

为了克服传统图像融合结果存在对比度不足和细节缺失的缺点,提出基于非下采样剪切波-对比度变换(NSSCT)的图像融合算法。分析了图像经非下采样剪切波变换(NSST)后高频系数间的关联性与差异性,构造了高频系数方向性基本一致的NSSCT变换,保留了融合图像的高频系数细节,并提升了对比度。基于图像的低频特点,采用显著性增强方法对低频系数进行融合,通过NSSCT逆变换得到对比度提升和细节增强的融合图像。实验结果表明,在图像对比度提升与细节保留方面,本文算法比基于小波、NSST和显著性等算法具有明显优势。     

改进的非下采样Contourlet变形红外弱小目标检测方法

针对存在复杂背景干扰和噪声的红外图像弱小目标检测问题,提出了一种非下采样Contourlet变换（NSCT）的改进的红外弱小目标检测方法。首先对含弱小目标的红外图像进行预处理,然后利用NSCT进行变换,并利用改进的非线性映射函数和能量交叉融合相结合的方法实现了背景杂波的抑制,最后引入Otsu算法进行阈值分割分离出红外弱小目标。通过与同类弱小目标检测算法的对比实验,验证了该方法的有效性。     

基于区域分维和非采样Contourlet变换的图像融合算法

针对源图像有用信息的提取,提出了基于区域分维和非下采样Contourlet变换相结合的红外与可见光图像融合算法.将图像的区域属性、区域大小、边缘强度以及纹理显著程度等特点用图像不同尺度上的区域分维进行描述,对于非下采样Contourlet变换低频系数,根据源图像不同尺度上的区域分维进行基于系数选择的融合.针对带通子带系数设计了系数局部匹配度算子,依据匹配度不同采用加权和系数选取相结合的融合规则.与其他常规融合方法进行比较,该算法可有效实现红外与可见光图像的融合.     

基于区域分维和非采样Contourlet变换的图像融合算法

针对源图像有用信息的提取,提出了基于区域分维和非下采样Contourlet变换相结合的红外与可见光图像融合算法.将图像的区域属性、区域大小、边缘强度以及纹理显著程度等特点用图像不同尺度上的区域分维进行描述,对于非下采样Contourlet变换低频系数,根据源图像不同尺度上的区域分维进行基于系数选择的融合.针对带通子带系数设计了系数局部匹配度算子,依据匹配度不同采用加权和系数选取相结合的融合规则.与其他常规融合方法进行比较,该算法可有效实现红外与可见光图像的融合.     

基于目标提取与引导滤波增强的红外与可见光图像融合EI北大核心CSCD

为了使融合结果突出目标并发掘更多细节,提出了一种基于目标提取与引导滤波增强的红外与可见光图像融合方法。首先对红外图像依据二维Tsallis熵和基于图的视觉显著性模型提取目标区域。然后对可见光与红外图像分别进行非下采样Shearlet变换(NSST),并对所得低频分量进行引导滤波增强。由增强后的红外图像和可见光图像低频分量基于目标提取的融合规则得到融合图像的低频分量,高频分量则根据方向子带信息和取大来确定。最后经NSST逆变换得到融合图像。大量实验结果表明,本文方法在增强融合图像空间细节的同时,有效突出了目标,并且在信息熵、平均梯度等指标上优于基于拉普拉斯金字塔变换、基于小波变换、基于平稳小波变换、基于非下采样Contourlet变换(NSCT)、基于目标提取与NSCT变换等。     

基于目标提取与引导滤波增强的红外与可见光图像融合

为了使融合结果突出目标并发掘更多细节,提出了一种基于目标提取与引导滤波增强的红外与可见光图像融合方法。首先对红外图像依据二维Tsallis熵和基于图的视觉显著性模型提取目标区域。然后对可见光与红外图像分别进行非下采样Shearlet变换(NSST),并对所得低频分量进行引导滤波增强。由增强后的红外图像和可见光图像低频分量基于目标提取的融合规则得到融合图像的低频分量,高频分量则根据方向子带信息和取大来确定。最后经NSST逆变换得到融合图像。大量实验结果表明,本文方法在增强融合图像空间细节的同时,有效突出了目标,并且在信息熵、平均梯度等指标上优于基于拉普拉斯金字塔变换、基于小波变换、基于平稳小波变换、基于非下采样Contourlet变换(NSCT)、基于目标提取与NSCT变换等。     

基于区域分割和Counterlet变换的图像融合算法

提出了一种基于区域分割和Contourlet变换的图像融合算法。首先,对各源图像做区域分割,并利用区域能量比和区域清晰比的概念来度量和提取区域信息;然后,对各源图像进行多尺度非子采样Contourlet分解,分解后的高频部分采用绝对值取大算子进行融合,低频部分则采用基于区域的融合规则和算子进行融合;最后进行重构得到融合图像。对红外与可见光图像进行了融合实验,并与基于像素的àtrous小波变换和Contourlet变换的融合效果进行了比较。结果表明,采用本文算法的融合图像既保留了可见光图像的光谱信息,又继承了红外图像的目标信息,其熵值高于基于像素的融合方法约10%,交叉熵仅为基于像素的融合方法的1%左右。     

基于区域检测与非下采样轮廓波变换的红外与彩色可见光图像融合

针对灰度图像融合的分辨率低及现有的彩色图像融合方法融合的图像色彩不自然、不符合人的视觉感受的特点,在此提出一种基于Snake模型的区域检测和非下采样轮廓波变换(NSCT)的红外与彩色可见光图像融合的方法。首先对彩色可见光图像进行亮度、色度和饱和度(IHS)颜色空间变换提取亮度分量,并用Snake模型对红外图像的目标区域进行检测;然后对亮度分量和目标替换的红外图像应用NSCT分解,对所得到的高频系数采用像素点"绝对值和取大"、低频系数采用基于"亮度重映射技术"的加权融合规则进行融合;通过对融合系数进行NSCT逆变换获得融合图像的亮度分量,最后运用颜色空间逆变换得到融合图像。实验结果表明,所提出的融合方法既能保持可见光图像的高分辨率和自然色彩,又能准确保留红外图像中检测出的目标信息,获得视觉效果较好、综合指标较优的融合图像。     

Technique for gray-scale visual light and infrared image fusion based on non-subsampled shearlet transform

A novel image fusion technique based on NSST (non-subsampled shearlet transform) is presented, aiming at resolving the fusion problem of spatially gray-scale visual light and infrared images. NSST, as a new member of MGA (multi-scale geometric analysis) tools, possesses not only flexible direction features and optimal shift-invariance, but much better fusion performance and lower computational costs compared with several current popular MGA tools such as NSCT (non-subsampled contourlet transform). We specifically propose new rules for the fusion of low and high frequency sub-band coefficients of source images in the second step of the NSST-based image fusion algorithm. First, the source images are decomposed into different scales and directions using NSST. Then, the model of region average energy (RAE) is proposed and adopted to fuse the low frequency sub-band coefficients of the gray-scale visual light and infrared images. Third, the model of local directional contrast (LDC) is given and utilized to fuse the corresponding high frequency sub-band coefficients. Finally, the final fused image is obtained by using inverse NSST to all fused sub-images. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed technique, several current popular ones are compared over three different publicly available image sets using four evaluation metrics, and the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed technique performs better in both subjective and objective qualities.     

An improved fusion algorithm for infrared and visible images based on multi-scale transform

In this paper, an improved fusion algorithm for infrared and visible images based on multi-scale transform is proposed. First of all, Morphology-Hat transform is used for an infrared image and a visible image separately. Then two images were decomposed into high-frequency and low-frequency images by contourlet transform (CT). The fusion strategy of high-frequency images is based on mean gradient and the fusion strategy of low-frequency images is based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Finally, the final fused image is obtained by using the inverse contourlet transform (ICT). The experiments and results demonstrate that the proposed method can significantly improve image fusion performance, accomplish notable target information and high contrast and preserve rich details information at the same time.     

Region-based fusion of infrared and visible images using nonsubsampled contourlet transform

With the nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT), a novel region-segmentation-based fusion algorithm for infrared (IR) and visible images is presented.The IR image is segmented according to the physical features of the target.The source images are decomposed by the NSCT, and then, different fusion rules for the target regions and the background regions are employed to merge the NSCT coefficients respectively.Finally, the fused image is obtained by applying the inverse NSCT.Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the pixel-based methods, including the traditional wavelet-based method and NSCT-based method.     

一种基于区域特性的红外与可见光图像融合算法

提出了一种基于区域分割和à trous小波变换的红外与可见光图像融合算法.首先,对红外与可见光图像进行区域分割及区域关联,并按关联映射图所划分区域提取红外与可见光图像的的能量信息及梯度信息;然后,对红外与可见光图像进行多尺度à trous小波变换分解,分解后的低频部分按照文中所提出的区域能量比和区域清晰比指标进行区域融合,高频部分采用绝对值取大算子进行融合;最后进行重构得到融合图像.结果表明,该算法既可保持可见光图像的光谱信息,又可有效获取红外图像的热目标信息.     

一种基于小波变换的红外偏振融合算法

针对红外偏振图像可以较好地抑制背景噪声,对目标边缘信息比较敏感的特点,提出一种基于小波变换的红外偏振融合算法,它主要用于红外辐射强度图像和偏振度图像融合,增加图像的信息量。首先采用小波变换对参与融合的每幅图像分别进行各尺度分解,得到各尺度小波系数,然后针对不同尺度小波系数,采用邻域平均梯度为判据进行融合,得到融合后的各尺度小波系数,最后通过小波逆变换进行图像重构,得到融合图像。融合前后的图像对比表明融合图像在保留辐射强度图像的清晰度的同时,突出了目标的边缘、轮廓信息。相对于辐射强度图像,融合图像的梯度均值提高了112%,相对于偏振度图像,融合图像的标准差提高了151%,信息熵提高了38%。     

The infrared and visible image fusion algorithm based on target separation and sparse representation

Although the fused image of the infrared and visible image takes advantage of their complementary, the artifact of infrared targets and vague edges seriously interfere the fusion effect. To solve these problems, a fusion method based on infrared target extraction and sparse representation is proposed. Firstly, the infrared target is detected and separated from the background rely on the regional statistical properties. Secondly, DENCLUE (the kernel density estimation clustering method) is used to classify the source images into the target region and the background region, and the infrared target region is accurately located in the infrared image. Then the background regions of the source images are trained by Kernel Singular Value Decomposition (KSVD) dictionary to get their sparse representation, the details information is retained and the background noise is suppressed. Finally, fusion rules are built to select the fusion coefficients of two regions and coefficients are reconstructed to get the fused image. The fused image based on the proposed method not only contains a clear outline of the infrared target, but also has rich detail information.     

Fusion method for infrared and visible images by using non-negative sparse representation

In this paper, an interesting fusion method, named as NNSP, is developed for infrared and visible image fusion, where non-negative sparse representation is used to extract the features of source images. The characteristics of non-negative sparse representation coefficients are described according to their activity levels and sparseness levels. Multiple methods are developed to detect the salient features of the source images, which include the target and contour features in the infrared images and the texture features in the visible images. The regional consistency rule is proposed to obtain the fusion guide vector for determining the fused image automatically, where the features of the source images are seamlessly integrated into the fused image. Compared with the classical and state-of-the-art methods, our experimental results have indicated that our NNSP method has better fusion performance in both noiseless and noisy situations.     

Pulse Coupled Neural Network-Based Multimodal Medical Image Fusion via Guided Filtering and WSEML in NSCT Domain

Multimodal medical image fusion aims to fuse images with complementary multisource information. In this paper, we propose a novel multimodal medical image fusion method using pulse coupled neural network (PCNN) and a weighted sum of eight-neighborhood-based modified Laplacian (WSEML) integrating guided image filtering (GIF) in non-subsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) domain. Firstly, the source images are decomposed by NSCT, several low- and high-frequency sub-bands are generated. Secondly, the PCNN-based fusion rule is used to process the low-frequency components, and the GIF-WSEML fusion model is used to process the high-frequency components. Finally, the fused image is obtained by integrating the fused low- and high-frequency sub-bands. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve better performance in terms of multimodal medical image fusion. The proposed algorithm also has obvious advantages in objective evaluation indexes VIFF, Q_W, API, SD, EN and time consumption.