An Improved Infrared/Visible Fusion for Astronomical Images

An undecimated dual tree complex wavelet transform (UDTCWT) based fusion scheme for astronomical visible/IR images is developed. The UDTCWT reduces noise effects and improves object classification due to its inherited shift invariance property. Local standard deviation and distance transforms are us...

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Main Authors: Attiq Ahmad, Muhammad Mohsin Riaz, Abdul Ghafoor, Tahir Zaidi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:Advances in Astronomy
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/203872
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Summary:An undecimated dual tree complex wavelet transform (UDTCWT) based fusion scheme for astronomical visible/IR images is developed. The UDTCWT reduces noise effects and improves object classification due to its inherited shift invariance property. Local standard deviation and distance transforms are used to extract useful information (especially small objects). Simulation results compared with the state-of-the-art fusion techniques illustrate the superiority of proposed scheme in terms of accuracy for most of the cases.
ISSN:1687-7969
1687-7977