Xin WANG, Tong-bo JI, Fu LIU. Fusion of infrared and visible images based on target segmentation and compressed sensing[J]. Optics and precision engineering, 2016, 24(7): 1743-1753.
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Xin WANG, Tong-bo JI, Fu LIU. Fusion of infrared and visible images based on target segmentation and compressed sensing[J]. Optics and precision engineering, 2016, 24(7): 1743-1753. DOI: 10.3788/OPE.20162407.1743.
Fusion of infrared and visible images based on target segmentation and compressed sensing
The image fusion of infrared and visible light is susceptible to noise and the target information is weakened easily. Therefore
a new fusion algorithm based on target area extraction and compressed sensing was proposed. Firstly
the infrared image was detected in a salient region at frequency-tuned domain to obtain a corresponding salient map. Under the guidance of the salient map
the infrared target area was extracted together with region growing method to effectively overcome the effects of noise and complex background interference on target segmentation. Then
non-subsampled shearlet transform was adopted to decompose the source images and the high and low frequency sub bands in the target and backgound regions were fused respectively. Finally
a new fusion rule was proposed based on multi-resolution singular value decomposition and compressed sensing
and the fused image was reconstructed by the non-subsampled shearlet inverse transform. As compared with the other algorithms
experimental results show that the algorithm highlights the target area
preserves the details of the source images and suppresses the noise interference. The image fusion quality evaluation indexes including information entropy
standard deviation
mutual information and transferred edge information have increased by 3.94%,19.14%,9.96% and 8.52%
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