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Abstract: Image fusion is a data fusion technology which keeps images as main research contents. It refers to the techniques that
integrate multi-images of the same scene from multiple image sensor data or integrate multi images of the same scene at different
times from one image sensor.. Wavelet Transform has good time-frequency characteristics. It was applied successfully in image
processing field. Nevertheless, its excellent characteristic in one-dimension can’t be extended to two dimensions or multi-dimension
simply. Separable wavelet which was spanning by one-dimensional wavelet has limited directivity. The experiments show that the
method could extract useful information from source images to fused images so that clear images are obtained. The selection
principles about low and high frequency coefficients according to different frequency domain after wavelet. In choosing the low-
frequency coefficients, the concept of local area variance was chosen to measuring criteria. In choosing the high frequency
coefficients, the window property and local characteristics of pixels were analyzed.
Keywords: Fusion oriented images, FPGA, Application of computer vision, DWT, Wavelet Coefficient maps .
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This method considered the fact that there usually has high Calculating wavelet coefficients at every possible scale is
correlation among neighboring pixels. a fair amount of work, and it generates an awful lot of data. If
the scales and positions are chosen based on powers of two,
the so-called dyadic scales and positions, then calculating
wavelet coefficients are efficient and just as accurate. This is
DWT obtained from discrete wavelet transform (DWT).
CT Scan Image
The 2-D subband decomposition is just an extension of 1-D
subband decomposition. The entire process is carried out by
Fusion MicroBlaze IDWT Fused executing 1-D subband decomposition twice, first in one
Rules direction (horizontal), then in the orthogonal (vertical)
Processor Image direction. For example, the low-pass subbands (Li) resulting
from the horizontal direction is further decomposed in the
vertical direction, leading to LLi and LHi subbands.
Fused Wavelet
MRI Scan DWT Coefficient Map
Similarly, the high pass subband (Hi) is further decomposed
Image into HLi and HHi. After one level of transform, the image can
FPGA Kit be further decomposed by applying the 2-D subband
decomposition to the existing LLi subband. This iterative
Registered
Wavelet process results in multiple “transform levels”. In Fig. 4. the
source Images Coefficient Maps first level of transform results in LH1, HL1, and HH1, in
Figure 2 Fusion process on FPGA Kit addition to LL1, which is further decomposed into LH2, HL2,
HH2, LL2 at the second level, and the information of LL2 is
In our research, we think objects carry the information of used for the third level transform. The subband LLi is a low-
interest, each pixel or small neighboring pixels are just one resolution subband and high-pass subbands LHi, HLi, HHi are
part of an object. Thus, we proposed a region-based fusion horizontal, vertical, and diagonal subband respectively since
scheme. When make the decision on each coefficient, we they represent the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal residual
consider not only the corresponding coefficients and their information of the original image.
closing neighborhood, but also the regions the coefficients are
in. We think the regions represent the objects of interest. We LL1 HL1
will provide more details of the scheme in the following.
HL2
2.2 Wavelet Transform LH1 HH1 HL3
Wavelets are mathematical functions defined over a finite
interval and having an average value of zero that transform LH2 HH2
data into different frequency components, representing each
component with a resolution matched to its scale.
LH3 HH3
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Level 1 Level 1
4. CONCLUSION
In order to evaluate the results and compare these methods
two quantitative assessment criteria Information Entropy and
Root Mean Square Error were employed. Experimental results
indicated that there are no considerable differences between
(c) (d) these two methods in performance. The fusions have been
implemented for medical images and remote sensing images.
It is hoped that the techniques can be extended for colored
images and for fusion of multiple sensor images with memory
constraints.
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