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A novel fusion method of infrared and visible images based on non-subsampled contourlet transform

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel infrared (IR) and visible images fusion methodology based on non-subsampled contourlet transform (NSCT). NSCT shows better performance compared with usual multi-scale decomposition for its multi-scale, shift invariance, multi-direction and efficient capture of geometric structures. The proposed fusion method uses NSCT for multiresolution decomposition of the source images. The low-pass NSCT adaptive fusion weights calculated from the IR source image’s pixel statistical characteristics. The high frequency directional coefficients with max absolute value are the coefficients of the fusion NSCT high frequency. Experimental results conforms that the proposed method have better performance compared with DWT, compressed sensing based on DWT (CS-DWT), NSCT, NSCT based on spatial frequency motivated pulse coupled neural networks (SF-PCNN-NSCT) from visual effects and a list of fusion quality evaluation metrics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationImage and Graphics - 8th International Conference, ICIG 2015, Proceedings
EditorsYu-Jin Zhang
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages297-306
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319219776
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event8th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2015 - Tianjin, China
Duration: 13 Aug 201516 Aug 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9217
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityTianjin
Period13/08/1516/08/15

Keywords

  • Fusion evaluation
  • Image fusion
  • NSCT
  • Statistical characteristics

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