Title :
Resolution enhancement by image fusion for microgrid polarization imagers
Author :
LeMaster, Daniel A.
Author_Institution :
Air Force Res. Lab., Dayton, OH, USA
Abstract :
Microgrid polarization imaging systems inherently suffer from spatial aliasing in addition to the image degrading effects of camera blur and noise. In this paper, microgrid aliasing is reduced by a factor of two and noise is suppressed via a fast image fusion technique borrowed from the study of super resolution. Additionally, a new regularization cost function for microgrid super resolution estimators is proposed. Polarimetric image fusion results are demonstrated with laboratory data.
Keywords :
image denoising; image fusion; image resolution; image sensors; polarimetry; camera blur; image degrading effects; microgrid aliasing; microgrid polarization imagers; microgrid super resolution estimator; polarimetric image fusion; resolution enhancement; spatial aliasing; Aerospace electronics; Degradation; Image fusion; Image resolution; Image restoration; Laboratories; Polarization; Spatial resolution; Stokes parameters; Strontium;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference, 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Big Sky, MT
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3887-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1095-323X
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.2010.5446702
