Image Fusion Algorithm Based on Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform

Abstract:

t is mostly difficult to get an image that contains all relevant objects in focus, because of the limited depth-of-focus of optical lenses. The multifocus image fusion method can solve the problem effectively. Nonsubsampled Contourlet transform has varying directions and multiple scales. When the Nonsubsampled contourlet transform is introduced to image fusion, the characteristics of original images are taken better and more information for fusion is obtained. A new method of multi-focus image fusion based on Nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) with the fusion rule of region statistics is proposed in this paper. Firstly, different focus images are decomposed using Nonsubsampled contourlet transform. Then low-bands are integrated using the weighted average, high-bands are integrated using region statistics rule. Next the fused image will be obtained by inverse Nonsubsampled contourlet transform. Finally the experimental results are showed and compared with those of method based on Contourlet transform. Experiments show that the approach can achieve better results than the method based on contourlet transform.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 401-403)
• Pages: 1381-1384
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.401-403.1381
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Zi Juan Luo, Shuai Ding
• Keywords: Imagefusion, Multi-Focus, Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT)

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