Novel image fusion algorithm based on human perception

Shangzheng Liu; Jiuqiang Han; Bowen Liu; Xinman Zhang

doi:10.1117/1.3119291

1 April 2009 Novel image fusion algorithm based on human perception

Shangzheng Liu, Jiuqiang Han, Bowen Liu, Xinman Zhang

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 48, Issue 4, 047002 (April 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3119291

Abstract

With the rapid development of numerous imaging sensors, a variety of image fusion algorithms have been proposed. However, these methods only transfer absolute information into the fused image and neglect the relative information contrast. Nevertheless, the contrast is the key stimulus variable represented by a neuron's activity. We propose a new image fusion method inspired by the human visual system. The new method uses the contrast to represent the salient features of an image. First, we use the polyharmonic local sine transform to decompose the source image into two components: the polyharmonic component and the residual. Next, we compute the contrast of every pixel by dividing the residual by the average value of the polyharmonic component. The polyharmonic component and residual are fused separately with different fusion rules. We can easily obtain the fused image through directly adding the composite polyharmonic component and the composite residual. Compared with the existing image fusion methods, such as the Laplace pyramid, shift-invariant wavelet, and contourlet, the inverse transformation is easy. The results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is effective and is superior to the conventional image fusion algorithm in terms of the mutual information.

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Shangzheng Liu, Jiuqiang Han, Bowen Liu, and Xinman Zhang "Novel image fusion algorithm based on human perception," Optical Engineering 48(4), 047002 (1 April 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3119291

Published: 1 April 2009

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