Abstract:

For the situation that the spatial resolution and spectral resolution of remote sensing images cannot be combined, we propose a remote sensing image fusion algorithm based on shearlet sparse base and guided filtering by combing multiscale transform with sparse representation. Based on the IHS fusion model, we adopt the guided filtering for the fitting process. Then the brightness image and the panchromatic image are decomposed by the shearlet transform to obtain the high and low frequency subband coefficients of the image. The lowfrequency subimages are sparsely processed and the optimal sparse coefficients are obtained, and fusion is performed based on the criterion that the activity degree of image blocks is large. The corresponding highfrequency subimages are fused based on regional energy and regional variance and obtain the fusion results via the shearlet inverse transformation. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can improve image sharpness and spectral retention, and it outperforms other algorithms in image integrity and detail.

Key words: image fusion, shearlet transform, low frequency part, sparse representation