Research on the technique of multisource image characteristic fusion

Image fusion is the process by which multiple images of the same scene are combined to generate a more accurate description of the scene than any of the individual source images. Multi-source image fusion is an important topic in the image understanding and computer vision field. Focusing on the evaluation problems in the multi-source image fusion, this document makes systematic analysis and research on the methods of subjective qualitative evaluating as well as objective quantitative evaluating the image fusion performance. Based on the features and interrelations of these methods, this document gives an evaluation system and corresponding evaluation criterion for the multi-source image fusion, which have important directive to the application of the image fusion methods in actual projects.