Towards cognitive image fusion

The increasing availability and deployment of imaging sensors operating in multiple spectral bands has led to a large research effort in image fusion, resulting in a plethora of pixel-level image fusion algorithms. However, the cognitive aspects of multisensor image fusion have not received much attention in the development of these methods. In...

Fusion of images from different electro-optical sensing modalities for surveillance and navigation tasks

Modern night-time cameras are designed to expand the conditions under which humans can operate. A functional piece of equipment must therefore provide an image that leads to good perceptual awareness in most environmental and operational conditions (to 'own the weather', or 'own the night'). The two most common night-time imaging systems either...

Uni-modal versus joint segmentation for region-based image fusion

A number of segmentation techniques are compared with regard to their usefulness for region-based image and video fusion. In order to achieve this, a new multi-sensor data set is introduced containing a variety of infra-red, visible and pixel fused images together with manually produced 'ground truth' segmentations. This enables the objective...