Fusion and quality analysis for remote sensing images using contourlet transform

Yoonsuk Choi; Ershad Sharifahmadian; Shahram Latifi

doi:10.1117/12.2016155

18 May 2013 Fusion and quality analysis for remote sensing images using contourlet transform

Yoonsuk Choi, Ershad Sharifahmadian, Shahram Latifi

Proceedings Volume 8743, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XIX; 874326 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2016155
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

Recent developments in remote sensing technologies have provided various images with high spatial and spectral resolutions. However, multispectral images have low spatial resolution and panchromatic images have low spectral resolution. Therefore, image fusion techniques are necessary to improve the spatial resolution of spectral images by injecting spatial details of high-resolution panchromatic images. The objective of image fusion is to provide useful information by improving the spatial resolution and the spectral information of the original images. The fusion results can be utilized in various applications, such as military, medical imaging, and remote sensing. This paper addresses two issues in image fusion: i) image fusion method and ii) quality analysis of fusion results. First, a new contourlet-based image fusion method is presented, which is an improvement over the wavelet-based fusion. This fusion method is then applied to a case study to demonstrate its fusion performance. Fusion framework and scheme used in the study are discussed in detail. Second, quality analysis for the fusion results is discussed. We employed various quality metrics in order to analyze the fusion results both spatially and spectrally. Our results indicate that the proposed contourlet-based fusion method performs better than the conventional wavelet-based fusion methods.

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Yoonsuk Choi, Ershad Sharifahmadian, and Shahram Latifi "Fusion and quality analysis for remote sensing images using contourlet transform", Proc. SPIE 8743, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XIX, 874326 (18 May 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2016155

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