An Adaptive Technique for the Enhanced Fusion of Low-Light Visible with Uncooled Thermal Infrared Imagery

A new algorithm is introduced that performs spatially adaptive enhancement on low-light visible and infrared images of the same scene and fusion of these into one composite image. The algorithm involves lowpass/high-pass ltering and simple nonlinear operations that can be table driven. Examples of the processing on image data collected in eld tests are given.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: ICIP
• Authors: Charles W. Therrien, James W. Scrofani, W. K. Krebs
• Keywords: Adaptive Enhancement, Composite Image, ICIP 1997, Image Processing, Simple Nonlinear Operations