Color invariant image fusion of visible and thermal infrared video
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1. A method for creating a color composite image fusion, comprising:
- providing one or more reflective input images and one or more thermal infrared input images, each image being defined by a plurality of gray scale pixel values; and
employing a processor to
1) map each of said gray scale pixel values in said one or more reflective input images only to a corresponding value in an intensity space (V) of an HSV color space, said HSV color space including a hue (H), saturation (S) chromaticity space and said intensity (V) space;
2) map each of said gray scale pixel values in said one or more thermal infrared images to a corresponding value in said HSV color space; and
3) generate a composite image from the values in said intensity space and said chromaticity space.
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A methodology for forming a composite color image fusion from a set of N gray level images takes advantage of the natural decomposition of color spaces into 2-D chromaticity planes and 1-D intensity. This is applied to the color fusion of thermal infrared and reflective domain (e.g., visible) images whereby chromaticity representation of this fusion is invariant to changes in reflective illumination.
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1. A method for creating a color composite image fusion, comprising:
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providing one or more reflective input images and one or more thermal infrared input images, each image being defined by a plurality of gray scale pixel values; and employing a processor to
1) map each of said gray scale pixel values in said one or more reflective input images only to a corresponding value in an intensity space (V) of an HSV color space, said HSV color space including a hue (H), saturation (S) chromaticity space and said intensity (V) space;
2) map each of said gray scale pixel values in said one or more thermal infrared images to a corresponding value in said HSV color space; and
3) generate a composite image from the values in said intensity space and said chromaticity space. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A processing apparatus for implementing image fusion, comprising:
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an input for receiving one or more reflective input images and one or more thermal infrared input images, each of said images including a plurality of gray scale pixel values; a memory for storing said images; and an image processor for combining said one or more reflective input images and said one or more thermal infrared input images into a third fused image, said processor being programmed to; 1) map each of said gray scale pixel values in said one or more reflective input images only to a corresponding value in an intensity space (V) of an HSV color space, said HSV color space including a hue (H), saturation (S) chromaticity space and said intensity (V) space; 2) map each of said gray scale pixel values in said one or more thermal infrared input images to a corresponding value in said HSV color space; and 3) generate said third fused image from the values in said intensity space and said chromaticity space. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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