Multimodal Image Fusion Method Based on Guided Filter

Abstract

In the process of multimodal image fusion, how to improve the visual effect after the image fused, while taking into account the protection of energy and the extraction of details, has attracted more and more attention in recent years. Based on the research of visual saliency and the final action-level measurement of the base layer, a multimodal image fusion method based on a guided filter is proposed in this paper. Firstly, multi-scale decomposition of a guided filter is used to decompose the two source images into a small-scale layer, large-scale layer and base layer. The fusion rule of the maximum absolute value is adopted in the small-scale layer, the weight fusion rule based on regular visual parameters is adopted in the large-scale layer and the fusion rule based on activity-level measurement is adopted in the base layer. Finally, the fused three scales are laminated into the final fused image. The experimental results show that the proposed method can improve the image edge processing and visual effect in multimodal image fusion.