Abstract: Most of the image fusion work has been limited to monochrome images. Algorithms which utilize human colour perception are attracting the image fusion community with great interest. It is mainly due to the reason that the use of colour greatly expands the amount of information to be conveyed in an image. Since, the human visual system is very much sensitive to colours; research was undertaken in mapping three individual monochrome multispectral images to the respective channels of an RGB image to produce a false colour fused image. Producing a fused colour output image which maintains the original chromaticity of the input visual image is highly tricky. The focus of this paper is developing a new approach to fuse a color image (visual image) and a corresponding grayscale one (Infrared image – IR) using the curvelet approach using different fusion rules in new fields. The fused image obtained by the proposed approach maintain the high resolution of the colored image (visual image), incorporate any hidden object given by the IR sensor as an example, or complements the two input images and keep the natural color of the visual image.

Gehad Mohamed Taher, Mohamed ElSayed Wahed and Ghada EL Taweal, “New Approach for Image Fusion Based on Curvelet Approach” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 5(7), 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.050710

@article{Taher2014,
title = {New Approach for Image Fusion Based on Curvelet Approach},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2014.050710},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.050710},
year = {2014},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {5},
number = {7},
author = {Gehad Mohamed Taher and Mohamed ElSayed Wahed and Ghada EL Taweal}
}