Hypercomplex principle component weighted approach to multiplespectral and panchromatic images Fusions

In this paper, a hypercomplex principle component weighted approach to multiplespectral and panchromatic images fusions is presented. Since it takes the vectorial property of RGB components into account, there is not the distortion of visible spectrums in the images fused by the proposed method. The evaluation results from the various methods representing the state of the art ones also show that the fusion results of presented approach is better than those of IHS(hue-intensity-saturation), PCA (principle component analysis) and wavelet-based methods.