Paper
11 June 2003 Pixel-based image fusion with false color mapping
Wei Zhao, Shiyi Mao
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Proceedings Volume 4898, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.467362
Event: Third International Asia-Pacific Environmental Remote Sensing Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Ocean, Environment, and Space, 2002, Hangzhou, China
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a pixel-based image fusion algorithm that combines the gray-level image fusion method with the false color mapping. This algorithm integrates two gray-level images presenting different sensor modalities or at different frequencies and produces a fused false-color image. The resulting image has higher information content than each of the original images. The objects in the fused color image are easy to be recognized. This algorithm has three steps: first, obtaining the fused gray-level image of two original images; second, giving the generalized high-boost filtering images between fused gray-level image and two source images respectively; third, generating the fused false-color image. We use the hybrid averaging and selection fusion method to obtain the fused gray-level image. The fused gray-level image will provide better details than two original images and reduce noise at the same time. But the fused gray-level image can't contain all detail information in two source images. At the same time, the details in gray-level image cannot be discerned as easy as in a color image. So a color fused image is necessary. In order to create color variation and enhance details in the final fusion image, we produce three generalized high-boost filtering images. These three images are displayed through red, green and blue channel respectively. A fused color image is produced finally. This method is used to fuse two SAR images acquired on the San Francisco area (California, USA). The result shows that fused false-color image enhances the visibility of certain details. The resolution of the final false-color image is the same as the resolution of the input images.
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Wei Zhao and Shiyi Mao "Pixel-based image fusion with false color mapping", Proc. SPIE 4898, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing, (11 June 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.467362
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KEYWORDS
Image fusion

Image filtering

Image enhancement

Image sensors

Optical filters

Sensors

Synthetic aperture radar

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