DocumentCode
1316935
Title
Image fusion performance metric based on mutual information and entropy driven quadtree decomposition
Author
Hossny, M. ; Nahavandi, S. ; Creighton, Douglas ; Bhatti, A.
Author_Institution
Centre for Intell. Syst. Res., Deakin Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Volume
46
Issue
18
fYear
2010
fDate
9/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1266
Lastpage
1268
Abstract
The mutual information (MI) measure has become a popular metric to assess image fusion performance. However, despite its publicity, it provides a questionable result that consistently favours additive fusion (averaging) over multi-scale decomposition (MSD) fusion algorithms. Presented is a localised variation of MI to assess image fusion performance while preserving the importance of local structural similarity. The presented metric has been validated with extensive tests on popular image fusion test cases.
Keywords
entropy; image fusion; quadtrees; additive fusion; entropy driven quadtree decomposition; image fusion performance metric; local structural similarity; multiscale decomposition fusion algorithms; mutual information measure;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el.2010.1778
Filename
5567050
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