Brightness and Color Transfer for Infrared Images in Vehicle Night Vision System

Abstract:

The automotive night vision system can significantly improve the safety of driving at night by fusion of visible and infrared images. Due to the aim at helping driving at night, it’s important to develop the visibility and the consistency of the image and the real condition on the road. In this paper, visible light image is enhanced its light and shadow information based on nonlinear exponential function and the infrared image is increased its contrast by S-Retriex method. Then the enhancement images are fused and the color space of fusion image is adjusted by the reference statistical characteristics. Simulations have shown that the result image has good visual scene which retains the details of the infrared image and has original light, shadow and color information.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 263-266)
• Pages: 2477-2482
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.263-266.2477
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Xue Bo Jin, Jing Jing Du, Jia Bao
• Keywords: Color Transfer, Image Fusion, Infrared Images, Night Vision Low Light Image, Retriex Method

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