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Study of Different Image Fusion Algorithm
Study of Different Image Fusion Algorithm
Website: www.ijetae.com (ISSN 2250-2459, ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal, Volume 3, Issue 5, May 2013)
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A(i,j), B(i,j) are input images and F(i,j) is fused image.
I. INTRODUCTION
Image Fusion is a process of combining the relevant
information from a set of images of the same scene into a
single image and the resultant fused image will be more
informative and complete than any of the input images.
Input images could be multi sensor, multimodal,
multifocus or multi temporal. There are some important
requirements for the image fusion process [1]:
- The fused image should preserve all relevant
information from the input images
- The image fusion should not introduce artifacts which
can lead to a wrong diagnosis
One of the important pre-processing steps for the
fusion process is image registration.Image registration is
the process of transforming different sets of data into one
coordinate system.Image fusion find application in the
area of navigation guidance, object detection and
recognition, medical diagnosis, satellite imaging for
remote sensing,
military and civilian surveillance,
etc.Image fusion algorithms can be categorized into
different levels: pixel, feature, and decision levels.Pixel
level fusion works directly on the pixels of source images
while feature level fusion algorithms operate on features
extracted from the source images.
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General process of image fusion using DWT
Step 1. Implement Discrete Wavelet Transform on both
the input image to create wavelet lower decomposition.
Step 2. Fuse each decomposition level by using different
fusion rule .
Step 3. Carry Inverse Discrete Wavelet Transform on
fused decomposed level, which means to reconstruct the
image, while the image reconstructed is the fused image
F.
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b) MRI image
c) Simple average
d) Simple minimum
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g) PCA
h) DWT
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S.No
Fusion technique
Domain
Measuring
parameter
Advantage
Disadvantage
Simple
Average [6] [8]
Spatial
PSNR-25.48
EN-7.22
Simple in implementation
Simple maximum
[4] [6]
Spatial
PSNR-26.86
EN-7.20
PCA [7]
Spatial
NC-0.998
PSNR-76.44
Spectral degradation
is present
DWT [5][8]
Transform
NC-0.998
PSNR-76.44
Combine DWT,
PCA[9]
Transform
NC-0.998
PSNR-76.44
Complex method
.
IV. CONCLUSION
Spatial domain image fusion techniques provide high
spatial resolution. But spatial domain have image
blurring problem. The Wavelet transforms provide a high
quality spectral content. Combination of DWT and PCA
provide better performance and improve the image fusion
quality.
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