Spatial, Temporal, and Interchannel Image Data Fusion for Long‐Distance Terrestrial Observation Systems
Barak Fishbain, Leonid Yaroslavsky, Ianir Ideses · Advances in Optical Technologies · 2008
This paper presents methods for intrachannel and interchannel fusion of thermal and visual sensors used in long‐distance terrestrial observation systems. Intrachannel spatial and temporal fusion mechanisms used for image stabilization, super‐resolution, denoising, and deblurring are supplemented by interchannel data fusion of visual‐ and thermal‐range channels for generating fused videos intended for visual analysis by a human operator. Tests on synthetic, as well as on real‐life, video sequences have confirmed the potential of the suggested methods.