New contrast and exposedness measures are then introduced for the stretched IR and VIS images to achieve weight matrices that are more in line with their characteristics. A content-adaptive gamma correction is first introduced to stretch the IR images by using one of the simplest edge-preserving filters, which alleviates excessive luminance shifts and color distortions in the fused images. In this paper, a novel multi-scale IR and VIS images fusion algorithm is proposed to integrate information from both the images into the fused image and preserve the color of the VIS image. It is desired to fuse IR and VIS images to generate a more informative image. Infrared (IR) band sensors can capture digital images under challenging conditions, such as haze, smoke, and fog, while visible (VIS) band sensors seize abundant texture information.
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