Standard Image Fusion Methods
Image fusion methods can be broadly classified into two groups - spatial domain fusion and transform domain fusion.
The fusion methods such as averaging, Brovey method, principal component analysis (PCA) and IHS based methods fall under spatial domain approaches. Another important spatial domain fusion method is the high pass filtering based technique. Here the high frequency details are injected into upsampled version of MS images. The disadvantage of spatial domain approaches is that they produce spatial distortion in the fused image. Spectral distortion becomes a negative factor while we go for further processing, such as classification problem. Spatial distortion can be very well handled by frequency domain approaches on image fusion. The multiresolution analysis has become a very useful tool for analysing remote sensing images. The discrete wavelet transform has become a very useful tool for fusion. Some other fusion methods are also there, such as Lapacian pyramid based, curvelet transform based etc. These methods show a better performance in spatial and spectral quality of the fused image compared to other spatial methods of fusion.
The images used in image fusion should already be registered. Misregistration is a major source of error in image fusion. Some well-known image fusion methods are:
- High pass filtering technique
- IHS transform based image fusion
- PCA based image fusion
- Wavelet transform image fusion
- pair-wise spatial frequency matching
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