The same object gotten from different sensors can be registered spatially by mage fusion. The information advantages or the complements of all the image data can be combined to produce new image data using some fusion algorithms. The new data can describe the optimized information of the studied object. Compared with single information source, the new data can reduce or restrain the ambiguity, the incompleteness, the uncertainty and the error, which may appears in the explanation of the studied object or the environment, and make full use of the information provided by all kinds of resources.
Image fusion consists of such three levels as the Pixel level,the feature level and the decision level,among which the Pixel level image fusion can Provide more
abundant, accurate and reliable detailed information that doesn’t exist on the other levels and It is the most complicated in the whole image fusion techniques and also is the most difficult to implement in the fusion Processing techniques. this dissertation Progresses mainly around the Pixel level image fusion and proposes a variety of Pixel level image fusion techniques according to the key Problems in the Pixel level image fusion techniques.
The major research and findings are as follows:
First we introduce the concepts, advantages,developments and applications. Three levels of image fusion and image fusion techniques in common use are also reviewed. Airspace Image Fusion such as simple fusion method (pixel average, maximal or minimal pixel selection), Frequency-domain image fusion methods include the multiresolution image fusion techniques based on multi-scale pyramid decomposition, and the image fusion method based on wavelet transform Image Pre-processing like Filter processing (neighborhood average filter, median filtering method) and Image Registration. in the end, eva luation for fusion image is vital to fusion system. This dissertation probes into the image fusion quality assessment and deduces a set of indexes as the criteria to analyze the performances of this discussion.