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JCP 2013 Vol.8(6): 1544-1551 ISSN: 1796-203X
doi: 10.4304/jcp.8.6.1544-1551

Image Fusion Method Based on Directional Contrast-Inspired Unit-Linking Pulse Coupled Neural Networks in Contourlet Domain

Xi Cai1, Guang Han2 and Jinkuan Wang1
1 Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao, China
2 College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China


Abstract—To take full advantage of global features of source images, we propose an image fusion method based on adaptive unit-linking pulse coupled neural networks (ULPCNNs) in the contourlet domain. Considering that each high-frequency subband after the contourlet decomposition has rich directional information, we employ directional contrast of each coefficient as the external stimulus to inspire each neuron. Linking range is also related to the contrast in order to adaptively improve the global coupling characteristics of ULPCNNs. In this way, biological activity of human visual systems to detailed information of images can be simulated by the output pulses of the ULPCNNs. The first firing time of each neuron is utilized to determine the fusion rule for corresponding detailed coefficients. Experimental results indicate the superiority of our proposed algorithm, for multifocus images, remote sensing images, and infrared and visible images, in terms of visual effects and objective evaluations.

Index Terms—Image fusion, contourlet transform, unitlinking pulse coupled neural network

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Cite: Xi Cai, Guang Han, and Jinkuan Wang, " Image Fusion Method Based on Directional Contrast-Inspired Unit-Linking Pulse Coupled Neural Networks in Contourlet Domain," Journal of Computers vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1544-1551, 2013.

General Information

ISSN: 1796-203X
Abbreviated Title: J.Comput.
Frequency: Bimonthly
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Liansheng Tan
Executive Editor: Ms. Nina Lee
Abstracting/ Indexing: DBLP, EBSCO,  ProQuest, INSPEC, ULRICH's Periodicals Directory, WorldCat,etc
E-mail: jcp@iap.org
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