The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics (응용통계연구)

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Image Fusion Based on Statistical Hypothesis Test Using Wavelet Transform

웨이블렛 변환을 이용한 통계적 가설검정에 의한 영상융합

  • Received : 20110500
  • Accepted : 20110700
  • Published : 2011.08.31
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Abstract

Image fusion is the process of combining multiple images of the same scene into a single fused image with application to many fields, such as remote sensing, computer vision, robotics, medical imaging and military affairs. The widely used image fusion rules that use wavelet transform have been based on a simple comparison with the activity measures of local windows such as mean and standard deviation. In this case, information features from the original images are excluded in the fusion image and distorted fusion images are obtained for noisy images. In this paper, we propose the use of a nonparametric squared ranks test on the quality of variance for two samples in order to overcome the influence of the noise and guarantee the homogeneity of the fused image. We evaluate the method both quantitatively and qualitatively for image fusion as well as compare it to some existing fusion methods. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method is effective and provides satisfactory fusion results.

영상융합이란 두 개 이상의 영상을 하나의 영상으로 결합하는 기술로 원격탐사, 컴퓨터 비전, 로보틱스, 의료영상 그리고 군사분야 등 여러 분야에서 활용되고 있다. 지금까지 웨이블렛 변환을 이용한 영상 융합규칙들은 웨이블렛 분해 후 얻어진 각 영역에서 평균 혹은 분산과 같은 액티비티(activity) 측도를 단순 수치 비교를 통하여 영상융합의 픽셀을 선택하였다. 이 경우 특징을 갖고 있는 영상이 융합과정에서 배제될 수 있고 또한 잡음의 영향으로 왜곡된 융합영상을 얻을 가능성이 높다. 본 논문에서는 웨이블렛 변환 하에 분산에 대한 통계적 검정인 제곱 순위 검정을 사용하여 통계적으로 유의하다고 판단되는 영역만을 융합 영상의 대체 영역으로 선택하였다. 영상 실험 결과 제안된 방법은 가시적인 평가에서 뿐 만 아니라 정량적인 평가에서도 입력 영상의 종류와 관계없이 기존의 방법들 보다 뛰어난 결과를 보여주었다.

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