A Novel Image Fusion Method Based on FRFT-NSCT

Peiguang Wang, Hua Tian and Wei Zheng

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2013, vol. 2013, 1-9

Abstract:

Nonsubsampled Contourlet transform (NSCT) has properties such as multiscale, localization, multidirection, and shift invariance, but only limits the signal analysis to the time frequency domain. Fractional Fourier transform (FRFT) develops the signal analysis to fractional domain, has many super performances, but is unable to attribute the signal partial characteristic. A novel image fusion algorithm based on FRFT and NSCT is proposed and demonstrated in this paper. Firstly, take FRFT on the two source images to obtain fractional domain matrices. Secondly, the NSCT is performed on the aforementioned matrices to acquire multiscale and multidirection images. Thirdly, take fusion rule for low-frequency subband coefficients and directional bandpass subband coefficients to get the fused coefficients. Finally, the fused image is obtained by performing the inverse NSCT and inverse FRFT on the combined coefficients. Three modes images and three fusion rules are demonstrated in the proposed algorithm test. The simulation results show that the proposed fusion approach is better than the methods based on NSCT at the same parameters.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1155/2013/408232

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