A Survey on Image Fusion Requirements, Techniques, Evaluation Metrics, and Its Applications

  • Authors

    • M N. Narsaiah
    • S Vathsal
    • D Venkat Reddy
    2018-04-18
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.20.14774
  • Fusion, evaluation metric, imaging, remote sensing, spatial resolution, surveillance, intensity hue saturation.
  • Fusion refers to combining two or more distinct things, the main objective of employing fusion is to generate results that provides the most detailed, reliable and accurate information possible.  The image fusion is one of the main branchof data fusion. In image fusion the images are fused at different levels of images like pixel, feature and decision level. The necessity of image fusion for high resolution on multispectral and panchromatic images or realtime images for better vision. This paper reviews the general requirements of image fusion, widely used image fusion techniques such as PCA,IHS,DWT,NSCT etc.,summarizes the Quality Assessment Metrics in terms of  metric, description and its principle,  finally image fusion applications in various fields such as object detection, object identification, optimization and pattern reorganization, medical imaging, etc.,

     

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    N. Narsaiah, M., Vathsal, S., & Venkat Reddy, D. (2018). A Survey on Image Fusion Requirements, Techniques, Evaluation Metrics, and Its Applications. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(2.20), 260-266. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.20.14774