Artificial Intelligence Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Automation and Information Engineering, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Zigong, China.
School of Information Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China.
PLoS One. 2021 Feb 19;16(2):e0245563. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245563. eCollection 2021.
Aiming at the situation that the existing visible and infrared images fusion algorithms only focus on highlighting infrared targets and neglect the performance of image details, and cannot take into account the characteristics of infrared and visible images, this paper proposes an image enhancement fusion algorithm combining Karhunen-Loeve transform and Laplacian pyramid fusion. The detail layer of the source image is obtained by anisotropic diffusion to get more abundant texture information. The infrared images adopt adaptive histogram partition and brightness correction enhancement algorithm to highlight thermal radiation targets. A novel power function enhancement algorithm that simulates illumination is proposed for visible images to improve the contrast of visible images and facilitate human observation. In order to improve the fusion quality of images, the source image and the enhanced images are transformed by Karhunen-Loeve to form new visible and infrared images. Laplacian pyramid fusion is performed on the new visible and infrared images, and superimposed with the detail layer images to obtain the fusion result. Experimental results show that the method in this paper is superior to several representative image fusion algorithms in subjective visual effects on public data sets. In terms of objective evaluation, the fusion result performed well on the 8 evaluation indicators, and its own quality was high.
针对现有可见光和红外图像融合算法仅注重突出红外目标而忽略图像细节性能,不能兼顾红外和可见光图像特点的情况,本文提出了一种基于 Karhunen-Loeve 变换和拉普拉斯金字塔融合的图像增强融合算法。通过各向异性扩散得到源图像的细节层,以获取更丰富的纹理信息。对红外图像采用自适应直方图分区和亮度校正增强算法,突出热辐射目标。针对可见光图像,提出了一种新颖的幂函数增强算法,模拟光照,提高可见光图像的对比度,便于人眼观察。为了提高图像的融合质量,对源图像和增强后的图像进行 Karhunen-Loeve 变换,形成新的可见光和红外图像。对新的可见光和红外图像进行拉普拉斯金字塔融合,并与细节层图像叠加,得到融合结果。实验结果表明,本文方法在公共数据集上的主观视觉效果优于几种有代表性的图像融合算法。在客观评价方面,融合结果在 8 个评价指标上表现良好,自身质量较高。