Fusion method of infrared and visible images based on neighborhood characteristic and regionalization in NSCT domain |
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Authors: | Yong Chen Jie Xiong Huan-lin Liu Qiang Fan |
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Affiliation: | 1. Key Laboratory of Industrial Internet of Things & Network Control, MOE, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China;2. Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Communication Technology, Nanan District, Chongqing 400065, China |
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Abstract: | On fusing infrared and visible image, the traditional fusion method cannot get the better image quality. Based on neighborhood characteristic and regionalization in NSCT (Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform) domain, the fusion algorithm was proposed. Firstly, NSCT was adopted to decompose infrared and visible images at different scales and directions for the low and high frequency coefficients, the low frequency coefficients which were fused with improving regional weighted fusion method based on neighborhood energy, and the high-frequency coefficients were fused with multi-judgment rule based on neighborhood characteristic regional process. Finally, the coefficients were reconstructed to obtain the fused image. The experimental results show that, compared with the other three related methods, the proposed method can get the biggest value of IE (information entropy), MI(VI,F) (mutual information from visible image), MI(VI,F) (mutual information from infrared image), MI (sum of mutual information), and QAB/F (edge retention). The proposed method can leave enough information in the original images and its details, and the fused images have better visual effects. |
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Keywords: | Image fusion Neighborhood energy Infrared and visible images Nonsubsampled Contourlet transform |
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