Title
An Image Fusion Method Based on Sparse Representation and Sum Modified-Laplacian in NSCT Domain.
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/e20070522
ENTROPY
Keywords
Field
DocType
image fusion,sparse representation,NSCT,SML
Mathematical optimization,Pattern recognition,Image fusion,Sparse approximation,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics,Laplace operator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
7
1099-4300
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.40
30
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuanyuan Li114821.33
Yanjing Sun29624.77
Xinhua Huang360.40
Guanqiu Qi416416.20
Mingyao Zheng5111.48
Zhiqin Zhu612814.67