An Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Method Based on Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform and Joint Sparse Representation

Guiqing He, Dandan Dong, Zhaoqiang Xia, Siyuan Xing, Yijing Wei

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Abstract

In conventional fusion methods based on NonSubsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT), low-frequency subband coefficient of an image fails to express sparsely the image's low-frequency information, not in favor of extracting source image features. To address this issue, an infrared and visible image fusion method based on NSCT and joint sparse representation (JSR) was proposed, in which, JSR transform of the image's low-frequency information is conducive to improving sparsity of low-frequency subband containing main energy of the image, as to high-frequency information, use of feature product as a fusion rule is beneficial to extract detail feature of the source image. Experimental result indicates that, compared with conventional multiscale transform-based DWT, NSCT-based fusion method and sparse representation-based SR and JSR algorithms, the method in this paper achieved better fusion effect, capable of keeping target information of the infrared image and background detail information (edge, texture, etc.) of the visible image better.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things; IEEE Green Computing and Communications; IEEE Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing; IEEE Smart Data, iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-Smart Data 2016
EditorsXingang Liu, Tie Qiu, Yayong Li, Bin Guo, Zhaolong Ning, Kaixuan Lu, Mianxiong Dong
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages492-497
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781509058808
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2017
Event9th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things, 12th IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, 9th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing and 2016 IEEE International Conference on Smart Data, iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-Smart Data 2016 - Chengdu, China
Duration: 16 Dec 201619 Dec 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things; IEEE Green Computing and Communications; IEEE Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing; IEEE Smart Data, iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-Smart Data 2016

Conference

Conference9th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things, 12th IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, 9th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing and 2016 IEEE International Conference on Smart Data, iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-Smart Data 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengdu
Period16/12/1619/12/16

Keywords

  • Feature product
  • Image fusion
  • Infrared and visible images
  • Joint sparse
  • Nonsubsampled Contourlet transform

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