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- Title
An Image Fusion Method Based on Sparse Representation and Sum Modified-Laplacian in NSCT Domain.
- Authors
Li, Yuanyuan; Sun, Yanjing; Huang, Xinhua; Qi, Guanqiu; Zheng, Mingyao; Zhu, Zhiqin
- Abstract
Multi-modality image fusion provides more comprehensive and sophisticated information in modern medical diagnosis, remote sensing, video surveillance, etc. Traditional multi-scale transform (MST) based image fusion solutions have difficulties in the selection of decomposition level, and the contrast loss in fused image. At the same time, traditional sparse-representation based image fusion methods suffer the weak representation ability of fixed dictionary. In order to overcome these deficiencies of MST- and SR-based methods, this paper proposes an image fusion framework which integrates nonsubsampled contour transformation (NSCT) into sparse representation (SR). In this fusion framework, NSCT is applied to source images decomposition for obtaining corresponding low- and high-pass coefficients. It fuses low- and high-pass coefficients by using SR and Sum Modified-laplacian (SML) respectively. NSCT inversely transforms the fused coefficients to obtain the final fused image. In this framework, a principal component analysis (PCA) is implemented in dictionary training to reduce the dimension of learned dictionary and computation costs. A novel high-pass fusion rule based on SML is applied to suppress pseudo-Gibbs phenomena around singularities of fused image. Compared to three mainstream image fusion solutions, the proposed solution achieves better performance on structural similarity and detail preservation in fused images.
- Subjects
IMAGE fusion; LAPLACIAN operator; PRINCIPAL components analysis; MATHEMATICAL singularities; SPARSE matrices
- Publication
Entropy, 2018, Vol 20, Issue 7, p522
- ISSN
1099-4300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/e20070522