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This document discusses using complex wavelet transforms for image fusion. It introduces applying the shift invariant and directionally selective Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT) to fuse images. This novel technique provides improved qualitative and quantitative results over previous wavelet fusion methods. Different fusion rules are analyzed and compared to determine the best technique for combining important features from multiple images into a single image.

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This document discusses using complex wavelet transforms for image fusion. It introduces applying the shift invariant and directionally selective Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT) to fuse images. This novel technique provides improved qualitative and quantitative results over previous wavelet fusion methods. Different fusion rules are analyzed and compared to determine the best technique for combining important features from multiple images into a single image.

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Complex Wavelet based Image Fusion Technique

Abstract

The fusion of images is the process of combining two or more images into a single image
retaining important features from each. Wavelet based fusion techniques have been reasonably
effective in combining perceptually important image features. Shift invariance of the wavelet
transform is important in ensuring robust subband fusion. Therefore, the novel application of the
shift invariant and directionally selective Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT) to
image fusion is now introduced. This novel technique provides improved qualitative and
quantitative results compared to previous wavelet fusion methods.

The fusion of images is often required for images acquired from different instrument
modalities or capture techniques of the same scene or objects. Important applications of the
fusion of images include medical imaging, microscopic imaging, remote sensing, computer
vision, and robotics. Fusion techniques include the simplest method of pixel averaging to more
complicated methods such as principal component analysis and wavelet transform fusion.
Several approaches to image fusion can be distinguished, depending on whether the images are
fused in the spatial domain or they are transformed into another domain, and their transforms
fused.

Fig 1 – Original image fusion using wavelets using some fusion rule

Different fusion rules will be analyzed and a comparison is made between these rules to
bring out the best and most suitable technique of image fusion.

Fig 1. Fusion of the wavelet transforms of two images using some fusion rule

The aim of this project has been to compare image fusion using the DT-CWT with
existing fusion techniques. For an effective fusion of images a technique should aim to retain
important features from all input images. These features often appear at different positions and
scales. Multiresolution analysis tools such as the wavelet transform are therefore ideally suited to
image fusion. Simple non-multiresolution methods for image fusion (such as averaging and PCA
methods) have produced limited results.

The quantitative method is used to compare the cut-and-paste image to each fused image
that has been developed from each fusion rule, by calculating ‘ρ’. Lower values of ‘ρ’ indicate
greater similarity between the “ground truth” image and the fused image, therefore more
successful fusion in terms of quantitatively measurable similarity.

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