Abstract：In order to solve the problem of low and non-uniform resolution in catadioptric omnidirectional imaging, a new image fusion method based on wavelet multi-scale decomposition was proposed in this paper according to the characteristics of complementary panoramic images. Using wavelet transform, the two complementary source images were decomposed into components with different resolutions and different directions first. And then based on specific fusion rules, low frequency was fused by average operator. With high frequency fusion, the exchanging by scales principle was utilized. At last, the fused image was reconstructed by inverse wavelet transform. The experimental results show that the fusion algorithm is simple and effective in the fusion of complementary panoramic images, and has good fusion results.
2013, Vol. 33 
