NDLI: An Edge Preserving Multiresolution Fusion: Use of Contourlet Transform and MRF Prior

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Author	Upla, K.P. Joshi, M.V. Gajjar, P.P.
Copyright Year	1980
Description	In this paper, we propose a new approach for multiresolution fusion using contourlet transform (CT). The method is based on modeling the low spatial resolution (LR) and high spectral resolution multispectral (MS) image as the degraded and noisy version of their high spatial resolution version. Since this is an ill-posed problem, it requires regularization in order to obtain the final solution. In this paper, we first obtain the initial estimate of the fused image from the available MS image and the panchromatic (Pan) image by using the CT domain learning. Since CT provides better directional edges, the initial estimate has better edge details. Using the initial estimate, we obtain the degradation that accounts for the aliasing between the LR MS image and fused image. Regularization is carried out by modeling the texture of the final fused image as a homogeneous Markov random field (MRF) prior, where the MRF parameter is estimated using the initial estimate. The use of MRF prior on the final fused image takes care of the spatial dependencies among the pixels. A simple gradient-based optimization technique is used to obtain the final fused image. Although we use homogeneous MRF, the proposed approach preserves the edges in the final fused image by retaining the edges from the initial estimate and by carrying out the optimization on nonedge pixels only. Therefore, the advantage of the proposed method lies in preserving the discontinuities without using the discontinuity preserving prior, thus avoiding the use of computationally taxing optimization techniques for regularization purposes. In addition, the proposed method causes minimum spectral distortion since it learns the texture using contourlet coefficients and does not use actual Pan image pixel intensities. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by conducting the experiments using subsampled and nonsubsampled CT on different data sets captured using Ikonos-2, Quickbird, and Worldview-2 satellites.
Sponsorship	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society IEEE URSI
Starting Page	3210
Ending Page	3220
Page Count	11
File Size	1515942
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01962892
Volume Number	53
Issue Number	6
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-01-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Image edge detection Computed tomography Spatial resolution Degradation Optimization Transforms maximum a posteriori (MAP) Canny edge detector Contourlet transform (CT) gradient descent image fusion Markov random field (MRF)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Earth and Planetary Sciences Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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