Visible and NIR Image Fusion Algorithm Based on Information Complementarity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10522v1
• Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:07:24 GMT
• Title: Visible and NIR Image Fusion Algorithm Based on Information Complementarity
• Authors: Zhuo Li, Bo Li
• Abstract summary: Currently visible and NIR fusion algorithms cannot take advantage of spectrum properties, as well as lack information complementarity. This paper designs a complementary fusion model from the level of physical signals. The proposed algorithm can not only well take advantage of the spectrum properties and the information complementarity, but also avoid color unnatural while maintaining naturalness.
• Score: 10.681833882330508
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Visible and near-infrared(NIR) band sensors provide images that capture complementary spectral radiations from a scene. And the fusion of the visible and NIR image aims at utilizing their spectrum properties to enhance image quality. However, currently visible and NIR fusion algorithms cannot well take advantage of spectrum properties, as well as lack information complementarity, which results in color distortion and artifacts. Therefore, this paper designs a complementary fusion model from the level of physical signals. First, in order to distinguish between noise and useful information, we use two layers of the weight-guided filter and guided filter to obtain texture and edge layers, respectively. Second, to generate the initial visible-NIR complementarity weight map, the difference maps of visible and NIR are filtered by the extend-DoG filter. After that, the significant region of NIR night-time compensation guides the initial complementarity weight map by the arctanI function. Finally, the fusion images can be generated by the complementarity weight maps of visible and NIR images, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can not only well take advantage of the spectrum properties and the information complementarity, but also avoid color unnatural while maintaining naturalness, which outperforms the state-of-the-art.

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