Night Vision Image Fusion Based on Phase Information Modulation and Image Enhancement Technique

Abstract

In order to observe night vision image easily, a new image fusion method is designed to improve the detail information of night vision images in a simple and efficient way. Instead of the traditional Multi-resolution analysis and spatial transform approach, the designed method highlights the detail information of night vision images by phase modulation and image enhancement technique. In the designed approach, the phase spectrum and amplitude spectrum of the visible and infrared images are extracted using FFT firstly, and then the phase spectra of two images are exchanged and the IFFT is applied to the processed images to produce phase information images. To compensate for the blurring caused by phase modulation, the high-frequency information of the processed infrared image is segmented and applied to the reconstruction of the color night vision image. Finally, color night vision image is fused by assigning the two-modulated images to red and green channels respectively, and the segmented image to blue channel. The experimental results show that the details of the fused image by the new method are richer than those of the images fused by the traditional methods, and the designed algorithm with a little amount of calculation can be easily realized in real-time processing systems.