Title
Color the night: applying daytime colors to nighttime imagery
Author
TNO Technische Menskunde
Toet, A.
Contributor
Verly, J.G. (editor)
Publication year
2003
Abstract
We present a method to give (fused) multiband night-time imagery a natural day-time color appearance. For input, the method requires a false color RGB image that is produced by mapping 3 individual bands (or the first 3 principal components) of a multiband nightvision system to the respective channels of an RGB image. The false color RGB nightvision image is transformed into a perceptually decorrelated color space. In this color space the first order statistics of a natural color image (target scene) are transferred to the multiband nightvision image (source scene). To obtain a natural color representation of the multiband night-time imagery, the compositions of the source and target scenes should resemble each other to some degree. The inverse transformation to RGB space yields a nightvision image with a day-time color appearance. The luminance contrast of the resulting color image can be enhanced by replacing its luminance component by a grayscale fused representation of the three input bands.
Subject
image fusion
infrared
false colour
colour
night vision
intensified imagery
pyramid
colour vision
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.484800
TNO identifier
12641
Publisher
SPIE, Bellingham
Source
Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 2003, 21 April 2003 through 21 April 2003, Orlando, FL, 5081 (5081), 168-178
Series
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Document type
conference paper