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Area Level Fusion of Multi-Focused Images Using Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Packet Transform
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The fast development of digital image processing leads to the growth of feature extraction of images which leads to the development of Image fusion. Image fusion is defined as the process of combining two or more different images into a new single image retaining important features from each image with extended information content. There are two approaches to image fusion,namely spatial fusion and multi scale transform fusion. In spatial fusion, the pixel values from the source images are directly summed up and taken average to form the pixel of the composite image at thatlocation. Multi scale transform fusion uses transform for representing the source image at multi scale. The most common widely used transform for image fusion at multi scale is Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) since it minimizes structural distortions. But, wavelet transform suffers due to poor directionality and does not provide a geometrically oriented decomposition in multiple directions. One way to generalize the discrete wavelet transform so as to generate a structured dictionary of base is given by the Discrete Wavelet Packet Transform (DWPT). This benefit comes from the ability of the wavelet packets to better represent high frequency content and high frequency oscillating signals in particular. However, it is well known that both DWT and DWPT are shift varying. The Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DTCWT) introduced by Kingsbury, is approximately shift -invariant and provides directional analysis. And there are three levels for image fusion namely pixel level, area level and region level. In this paper, it is proposed to implement area level fusion of multi focused images using Dual Tree Complex Wavele Packet Transform (DTCWPT), extending the DTCWT as the DWPT extends the DWT and the performance is measured in terms of various performance measures like root mean square error, peak signal to noise ratio, quality index and normalized weighted performance metric.
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