Fast and true-to-life application of daytime colours to night-time imagery
conference paper
We developed a fast and efficient method to derive and apply a natural colour mapping for night-time imagery from multi-band sensors. The colour mapping is derived from the combination of a multi-band image and a corresponding natural colour reference image. The mapping optimizes the match between the multi-band image and the reference image, and yields a nightvision image with a colour distribution similar to that of the reference image. The actual mapping procedure is extremely simple and fast, and once it has been derived the colour mapping can be deployed in realtime to other multi-band images. Displaying night-time imagery in natural colours may help human observers to process this type of imagery faster and better, thereby improving situational awareness and reducing reaction times.
Topics
Colour mappingFalse colourImage fusionConformal mappingData fusionFusion reactionsHuman reaction timeInformation fusionNuclear physicsOptical propertiesSensor data fusionColour mappingEfficient methodsFalse colourHuman observersImage fusionInternational conferencesMulti bandsMulti-band imagesMulti-band sensorsNatural colourNight visionReaction timesReal timeReference imagesSituational awarenessColor
TNO Identifier
19156
ISSN
978-0-662-45804-3
Publisher
IEEE
Article nr.
4407987
Source title
Image Fusion and Video Fusion Assessment (Special Session). Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Fusion, 9-12 July, Mountain View, CA: International Society of Information Fusion.
Editor(s)
Nikolov, S.
Toet, A.
Toet, A.
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