Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2022, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (1): 80-92.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2022.01.008

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Infrared Image Fusion Based on NSCT and Compressed Sensing

JIN An'an1, LI Xiang1,2, ZHANG Li1, XIONG Qingzhi1   

  1. 1. School of Information Engineering, East China University of Technology, Nanchang 330013, Jiangxi, China;
    2. Jiangxi Engineering Technology Research Center of Nuclear Geoscience Data Science and System, East China University of Technology, Nanchang 330013, Jiangxi, China
  • Received:2021-07-12 Online:2022-01-28 Published:2022-01-28

Abstract: Aiming at the problems of low quality, lack of information and non-prominent edge details in the fusion process of infrared and visible images, this paper proposes a compressed sensing image fusion and reconstruction algorithm based on non-subsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) and sparse representation. Firstly, a source image is decomposed by using NSCT to obtain corresponding high-frequency sub-band and low-frequency sub-band images. Then, the high-frequency sub-band images are fused by using the highfrequency fusion rules based on compressed sensing to obtain high-frequency fusion coefficients. For the low-frequency sub-band images, low-frequency fusion coefficients are obtained by using the low-frequency fusion rules based on dictionary learning. Finally, a fusion image is obtained by using the inverse NSCT transformation to achieve superresolution recovery of infrared and visible images. Experimental results show that the images fused by this algorithm have good performance in metrics, such as average gradient, edge intensity, information entropy, edge information retention and spatial frequency, and prove that this fusion algorithm has significant advantages in image fusion quality.

Key words: image fusion, non-subsampled contour transform (NSCT), sparse representation, compressed sensing (CS), infrared image

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