Image fusion based on regional energy and standard deviation

Image fusion technology of infrared and visible light could enhance the driver´s visual effects in low visibility circumstance, and reduce the probability of the traffic accidents. Focused on the application of wavelet transform in image fusion, a image fusion method was proposed based on a regional energy and standard deviation for the infrared and visual light images. In this method, low-frequency approximation component of wavelet transform were obtained by a regional energy-weighted fusion rule, and three high-frequency details components were composed by utilizing the regional standard deviation-weighted fusion rule. Through the two groups of infrared and visual light image fusion experiments show that: the standard deviation of the image produced by the method increased 41.8% and 67.2% and the average brightness increased from 34.6% to 55.1% compared with simple method, respectively.