Infrared image fusion for quality enhancement

Abstract

Abstract This paper presents an approach for infrared image enhancement through fusion. Firstly, the infrared image is enhanced through histogram matching to enhance its dynamic range. A reference image with a good dynamic range, such as Cameraman, Lena, and Mandrill, is used in the histogram matching process. After that, the enhanced image is fused with the original image through curvelet fusion to inject much more details in the infrared image. The proposed approach achieves high quality of infrared image enhancement compared with different techniques.