Proceedings of the 2012 2nd International Conference on Computer and Information Application (ICCIA 2012)

An Effective Image Fusion Method Based on Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform and Pulse Coupled Neural Network

Authors
Lijuan Ma, Chunhui Zhao
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Lijuan Ma
Available Online May 2014.
DOI
10.2991/iccia.2012.2How to use a DOI?
Keywords
IHS transform, Nonsubsampled Contourlet transform, Pulse Coupled Neural Networks transform, image fusion
Abstract

In order to solve the problem of spectral distortion and the fuzzy texture in visible and infrared image fusion technology, a novel visible and infrared image fusion method based on the Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) and Pulse Coupled Neural Networks (PCNN) is proposed in this paper. First, we gain three components of visible image, luminance I, chrominance H and saturation S, using the IHS transform. Then, we gain three coefficients, low frequency sub-band, passband sub-band and high frequency coefficient by decomposing the component I and infrared image with the help of the NSCT. Next, we use weighted-sum method to fuse the low frequency sub-band and PCNN method to fuse the other sub-band coefficient respectively. At last, we gain the fusion image by using the inverse IHS transform on the fusion component I gained by the inverse NSCT transform. Experiments show that our method have better fusion quality and can be more better to keep the visible spectral and detail information than some traditional methods such as, Laplace method, Wavelet method and Lifting Wavelet method.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2012 2nd International Conference on Computer and Information Application (ICCIA 2012)
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
May 2014
ISBN
10.2991/iccia.2012.2
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/iccia.2012.2How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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