Abstract

The stationary contourlet transform is built upon nonsubsampled pyramids and nonsubsampled directional filter banks and provides a shift invariant directional multiresolution image representation. Firstly, several SAR images can be decomposed into low-frequency coefficients and high-frequency coefficients with multi-scales and multi-directions using the stationary contourlet transform. For the low-frequency coefficients, the average fusion method is used. For the each directional high frequency sub-band coefficients, the larger value of horizontal and vertical direction gradient information measurement is used to select the better coefficients for fusion. At last the fused image can be obtained by utilizing inverse transform for fused contourlet coefficients. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm gives more satisfactory results than the traditional image fusion algorithms in preserving the edges and texture information.

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