A NOVEL REGION BASED IMAGE FUSION METHOD USING DWT AND REGION CONSISTENCY RULE

Tanish Zaveri, Mukesh Zaveri

2009

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel region based image fusion scheme using discrete wavelet transform and region consistency rule. In the recent literature, region based image fusion methods show better performance than pixel based image fusion methods. The graph based normalized cutset algorithm is used for image segmentation. The region consistency rule is used to select the regions from discrete wavelet transform decomposed source images. The new MMS fusion rule is also proposed to fuse multimodality images. Proposed method is applied on large number of registered images of various categories of multifocus and multimodality images and results are compared using standard reference based and nonreference based image fusion parameters. It has been observed that simulation results of our proposed algorithm are consistent and more information is preserved compared to earlier reported pixel based and region based methods.

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Zaveri T. and Zaveri M. (2009). A NOVEL REGION BASED IMAGE FUSION METHOD USING DWT AND REGION CONSISTENCY RULE . In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICNC, (IJCCI 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-014-6, pages 339-346. DOI: 10.5220/0002283203390346


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@conference{icnc09,
author={Tanish Zaveri and Mukesh Zaveri},
title={A NOVEL REGION BASED IMAGE FUSION METHOD USING DWT AND REGION CONSISTENCY RULE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICNC, (IJCCI 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={339-346},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002283203390346},
isbn={978-989-674-014-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICNC, (IJCCI 2009)
TI - A NOVEL REGION BASED IMAGE FUSION METHOD USING DWT AND REGION CONSISTENCY RULE
SN - 978-989-674-014-6
AU - Zaveri T.
AU - Zaveri M.
PY - 2009
SP - 339
EP - 346
DO - 10.5220/0002283203390346