Infrared and Visible Light Image Fusion Based on Image Enhancement and Secondary Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform

Qingdian Zhao; Dehong Yang

doi:10.3788/LOP231324

Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 61, Issue 4, 0437001(2024)

Infrared and Visible Light Image Fusion Based on Image Enhancement and Secondary Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform

Qingdian Zhao and Dehong Yang^*

Author Affiliations

Faculty of Land Resources Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, Yunnan, China

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Fig. 1. Enhanced images with different values T. (a) Source image; (b) $T = 2$ ; (c) $T = 3$ ;(d) $T = 4$ ; (e) $T = 5$

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Fig. 2. Example diagram of visible light image and its enhanced image. (a) Marne; (b) enhanced Marne; (c) Movie_01; (d) enhanced Movie_01

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Fig. 3. Schematic diagram of NSCT decomposition

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Fig. 4. Flow chart of the proposed fusion method

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Fig. 5. Fusion results of 9 methods in"Road"scene. (a) ADF; (b) MGFF; (c) CNN; (d) FPDE; (e) MLEPF; (f) HMSD_GF; (g) DTF_SR; (h) IFEVIP; (i) proposed method

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Fig. 6. Fusion results of 9 methods in"Movie_01"scene. (a) ADF; (b) MGFF; (c) CNN; (d) FPDE; (e) MLEPF; (f) HMSD_GF; (g) DTF_SR; (h) IFEVIP; (i) proposed method

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Fig. 7. Fusion results of different algorithms in 6 scenarios. (a) ADF; (b) MGFF; (c) CNN; (d) FPDE; (e) MLEPF; (f) HMSD_GF; (g) DTF_SR; (h) IFEVIP; (i) proposed method

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Fig. 8. Point and line diagrams of different evaluation index values for fusion results of 21 pairs of test images. (a) AG; (b) EI; (c) SF; (d) Q^AB/F; (e) EN; (f) PSNR; (g) MI; (h) Q_CB

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Table 1. Average of 8 evaluation indicators for 21 fusion results

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Table 1. Average of 8 evaluation indicators for 21 fusion results

Method	AG	EI	SF	Q^AB/F	EN	PSNR	MI	Q_CB
ADF	4.0210	39.7740	10.0780	0.3980	6.5380	59.6370	1.2926	0.48164
MGFF	5.1986	52.5687	12.9990	0.4200	6.8257	59.1620	1.1554	0.51540
CNN	4.7790	48.2860	12.4760	0.4660	7.2240	58.6390	1.5866	0.53533
FPDE	3.8640	38.3330	9.4060	0.3830	6.5480	59.3390	1.3152	0.47222
MLEPF	4.4214	45.4224	11.5514	0.4178	6.7366	59.2217	1.1900	0.52360
HMSD_GF	5.4360	54.7510	14.1200	0.4520	7.1340	58.7260	1.5025	0.54859
DTF_SR	4.7105	46.6156	12.6878	0.5800	7.1935	58.3479	2.8512	0.54480
IFEVIP	4.4820	45.7300	11.5740	0.4080	6.9750	58.0570	1.5431	0.47141
Proposed method	6.9530	66.6070	18.1840	0.4350	7.2750	57.5310	1.6012	0.55495

Table 2. Average of 8 evaluation indicators for 21 fusion results in three scenarios

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Table 2. Average of 8 evaluation indicators for 21 fusion results in three scenarios

Method	AG	EI	SF	Q^AB/F	EN	PSNR	MI	Q_CB
Proposed method	7.0510	66.6071	7.2754	1.6012	57.5307	0.4348	18.1841	0.5550
Scenario 1	5.1315	50.5300	7.1482	1.2835	56.7881	0.3146	13.2693	0.5428
Scenario 2	6.7598	64.2163	6.9125	1.1632	56.9103	0.4307	18.0635	0.5198

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Qingdian Zhao, Dehong Yang. Infrared and Visible Light Image Fusion Based on Image Enhancement and Secondary Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2024, 61(4): 0437001

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Paper Information

Category: Digital Image Processing

Received: May. 16, 2023

Accepted: Jun. 1, 2023

Published Online: Feb. 26, 2024

The Author Email: Dehong Yang (1486097650@qq.com)

DOI:10.3788/LOP231324

CSTR:32186.14.LOP231324

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