Multi-Frame Image Fusion Method Combining Spatial-Temporal Saliency Detection and NSCT

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We propose a new image fusion method to fuse the frames of infrared and visual image sequences more effectively. In our method, we introduce an improved salient feature detection algorithm to achieve the saliency map of the original frames. This improved method can detect not only spatially but also temporally salient features using dynamic information of inter-frames. Images are then segmented into target regions and background regions based on saliency distribution. We formulate fusion rules for different regions using a double threshold method and finally fuse the image frames in NSCT multi-scale domain. Comparison of different methods shows that our result is a more effective one to stress salient features of target regions and maintain details of background regions from the original image sequences.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 403-408)

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1927-1932

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November 2011

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