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<p>Due to the different imaging mechanism of optical image and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image, they have the large different characteristics between the images, so fusing optical image and SAR image with image fusion technology could complement advantages and be able to better interpret the scenes information. A fusion algorithm of Synthetic Aperture Radar and optical image with fast sparse representation on low-frequency images was proposed. For the disadvantage of target information easily missing and the contrast low in fused image, and the fusion method with sparse representation could effectively retain target information of Synthetic Aperture Radar image, so the paper fuses low frequency images of Synthetic Aperture Radar and optical images using sparse representation. Moreover a new sparse coefficient fusion rules is proposed, and sparse decomposition process is improved to reduce the algorithm running time. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm.</p></abstract>

Due to the different imaging mechanism of optical image and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image, they have the large different characteristics between the images, so fusing optical image and SAR image with image fusion technology could complement advantages and be able to better interpret the scenes information. A fusion algorithm of Synthetic Aperture Radar and optical image with fast sparse representation on low-frequency images was proposed. For the disadvantage of target information easily missing and the contrast low in fused image, and the fusion method with sparse representation could effectively retain target information of Synthetic Aperture Radar image, so the paper fuses low frequency images of Synthetic Aperture Radar and optical images using sparse representation. Moreover a new sparse coefficient fusion rules is proposed, and sparse decomposition process is improved to reduce the algorithm running time. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm.

Fusion Algorithm OF Optical Images and SAR With SVT and Sparse Representation

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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{"article-title":"Fusion Algorithm OF Optical Images and SAR With SVT and Sparse Representation"}

Due to the different imaging mechanism of optical image and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image, they have the large different characteristics between the...

Fusion Algorithm OF Optical Images and SAR With SVT and Sparse Representation

Pubblicato online: 01 giu 2015

Pagine: 1123 - 1141

Ricevuto: 30 gen 2015

Accettato: 12 apr 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-799

© 2015 Yin Zhouping published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.