一种基于NSCT变换的红外与可见光图像融合算法

针对红外与可见光图像融合,提出了一种基于NSCT变换的图像融合方法。对经NSCT变换的低频子带系数采用基于区域能量自适应加权的融合规则,对高频子带系数采用混合的融合方法,即对于低层,采用基于区域方差选大的融合方法,对于高层采用像素点的绝对值选大的融合方法。实验结果表明,该融合算法可以获得更多的细节信息,能获得较理想的融合图像。     

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.     

An adaptive fusion approach for infrared and visible images based on NSCT and compressed sensing

A novel nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) based image fusion approach, implementing an adaptive-Gaussian (AG) fuzzy membership method, compressed sensing (CS) technique, total variation (TV) based gradient descent reconstruction algorithm, is proposed for the fusion computation of infrared and visible images.Compared with wavelet, contourlet, or any other multi-resolution analysis method, NSCT has many evident advantages, such as multi-scale, multi-direction, and translation invariance. As is known, a fuzzy set is characterized by its membership function (MF), while the commonly known Gaussian fuzzy membership degree can be introduced to establish an adaptive control of the fusion processing. The compressed sensing technique can sparsely sample the image information in a certain sampling rate, and the sparse signal can be recovered by solving a convex problem employing gradient descent based iterative algorithm(s).In the proposed fusion process, the pre-enhanced infrared image and the visible image are decomposed into low-frequency subbands and high-frequency subbands, respectively, via the NSCT method as a first step. The low-frequency coefficients are fused using the adaptive regional average energy rule; the highest-frequency coefficients are fused using the maximum absolute selection rule; the other high-frequency coefficients are sparsely sampled, fused using the adaptive-Gaussian regional standard deviation rule, and then recovered by employing the total variation based gradient descent recovery algorithm.Experimental results and human visual perception illustrate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed fusion approach. The efficiency and robustness are also analyzed and discussed through different evaluation methods, such as the standard deviation, Shannon entropy, root-mean-square error, mutual information and edge-based similarity index.     

Image fusion based on nonsubsampled contourlet transform for infrared and visible light image

In this paper, a new method based on nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) is proposed to fuse the infrared image and the visible light image, which will produce a new fused image by which the target can be identified more easily. Firstly, two original images were decomposed into low frequency subband coefficients and the bandpass direction subband coefficients by using NSCT. Secondly, the selection of the low frequency subband coefficient and the bandpass direction subband coefficient is discussed in detail. The low frequency subband coefficients are selected based on the regional visual characteristics. For the selection of bandpass direction subband coefficients, this paper proposes a minimum regional cross-gradient method, and the cross-gradient is gained by calculating the gradient between the pixel of bandpass subbands and the adjacent pixel in the fused image of the low-frequency components. Comparison experiments have been performed on different image sets, and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method performs better in both subjective and objective qualities.     

非下采样Contourlet变换域混合统计模型图像去噪

提出了一种基于非下采样Contourlet变换(NSCT)域图像去噪算法.首先根据尺度间与尺度内的NSCT系数之间的相关性,用非高斯分布模型对NSCT系数与其邻域系数及父系数进行建模,给出分类准则,把系数分为重要系数和非重要系数,再采用广义高斯分布来模拟重要系数的概率分布,根据贝叶斯理论得到自适应阈值,并求出最佳参量范围.为了克服软、硬阈值函数的缺点,提出一种自适应的新阈值函数,利用新阈值函数估计出不含噪音的变换系数,并通过非下采样Contourlet逆变换得到去噪后的图像.仿真实验表明,本文方法在峰值信噪比、结构相似性与视觉效果上均优于目前许多优秀的去噪算法.     

Synthetic Aperture Radar image nonlinear enhancement algorithm based on NSCT transform

Due to the imaging mechanism, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are susceptible to speckle noise, which affects radar image interpretation. So image denoising and enhancement are important topics of improving SAR image performance. A nonlinear image enhancement algorithm based on nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) is proposed in this paper. The image is decomposed into coefficients of different scales and directions through nonsubsampled contourlet transform. It is denoised by the threshold method of the multi-scale product of NSCT coefficients. Then thresholds of the nonlinear enhancement function are determined according to the coefficients of each scale. The two parameters of the function, among which one is used to control the range of enhancement and the other can determine the strength of enhancement, are obtained by solving nonlinear equations. The coefficients processed by the enhancement function are used to reconstruct the image. The simulation results on the Matlab platform show that the algorithm has a good effect of enhancing details of images and suppressing noise signals meanwhile.     

Multiscale Geometric Analysis Fusion-Based Unsupervised Change Detection in Remote Sensing Images via FLICM Model

Remote sensing image change detection is widely used in land use and natural disaster detection. In order to improve the accuracy of change detection, a robust change detection method based on nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) fusion and fuzzy local information C-means clustering (FLICM) model is introduced in this paper. Firstly, the log-ratio and mean-ratio operators are used to generate the difference image (DI), respectively; then, the NSCT fusion model is utilized to fuse the two difference images, and one new DI is obtained. The fused DI can not only reflect the real change trend but also suppress the background. The FLICM is performed on the new DI to obtain the final change detection map. Four groups of homogeneous remote sensing images are selected for simulation experiments, and the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed homogeneous change detection method has a superior performance than other state-of-the-art algorithms.     

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.     

A multi-focus image fusion algorithm based on an improved dual-channel PCNN in NSCT domain

This paper presents a multi-focus image fusion algorithm based on dual-channel PCNN in NSCT domain. The fusion algorithm based on multi-scale transform is likely to produce the pseudo-Gibbs effects and it is not effective to fuse the dim or partial bright images. To solve these problems, this algorithm will get a number of different frequency sub-image of the two images by using the NSCT transform, the selection principles of different subband coefficients obtained by the NSCT decomposition are discussed in detail, and the images are fused based on the improved dual-channel PCNN in order to determine the band-pass sub-band coefficient, at last fused image is obtained by using the inverse NSCT transform. Fusion rules based on dual-channel PCNN are used to solve the complexity of the PCNN parameter settings and long computing time problems. The experimental results show that the algorithm has overcome the defects of the traditional multi-focus image fusion algorithm and improved the fusion effect.     

贴片电阻表面缺陷自动识别方法

提出了一种基于非下采样Contourlet变换(NSCT)域图像去噪算法.首先根据尺度间与尺度内的NSCT系数之间的相关性,用非高斯分布模型对NSCT系数与其邻域系数及父系数进行建模,给出分类准则,把系数分为重要系数和非重要系数,再采用广义高斯分布来模拟重要系数的概率分布,根据贝叶斯理论得到自适应阈值,并求出最佳参量范围.为了克服软、硬阈值函数的缺点,提出一种自适应的新阈值函数,利用新阈值函数估计出不含噪音的变换系数,并通过非下采样Contourlet逆变换得到去噪后的图像.仿真实验表明,本文方法在峰值信噪比、结构相似性与视觉效果上均优于目前许多优秀的去噪算法.