Information measure for assessing pixel-level fusion methods

Vassilis Tsagaris; Vassilis Anastassopoulos

doi:10.1117/12.565597

10 November 2004 Information measure for assessing pixel-level fusion methods

Vassilis Tsagaris, Vassilis Anastassopoulos

Proceedings Volume 5573, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing X; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.565597
Event: Remote Sensing, 2004, Maspalomas, Canary Islands, Spain

Abstract

An objective measure for evaluating the performance of pixel level fusion methods is introduced in this work. The proposed measure employs mutual information and conditional mutual information in order to assess and represent the amount of information transferred from the source images to the final fused greyscale image. Accordingly, the common information contained in the source images is considered only once in the formation of the final image. The measure can be used regardless the number of source images or the assumptions about the intensity values and there is no need for an ideal or test image. The experimental results clarify the usefulness of the proposed measure.

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Vassilis Tsagaris and Vassilis Anastassopoulos "Information measure for assessing pixel-level fusion methods", Proc. SPIE 5573, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing X, (10 November 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.565597

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