An infrared and visible image fusion method based upon multi-scale and top-hat transforms

The high-frequency components in the traditional multi-scale transform method are approximately sparse, which can represent different information of the details. But in the low-frequency component, the coefficients around the zero value are very few, so we cannot sparsely represent low-frequency image information. The low-frequency component contains the main energy of the image and depicts the profile of the image. Direct fusion of the low-frequency component will not be conducive to obtain highly accurate fusion result. Therefore, this paper presents an infrared and visible image fusion method combining the multi-scale and top-hat transforms. On one hand, the new top-hat-transform can effectively extract the salient features of the low-frequency component. On the other hand, the multi-scale transform can extract highfrequency detailed information in multiple scales and from diverse directions. The combination of the two methods is conducive to the acquisition of more characteristics and more accurate fusion results. Among them, for the low-frequency component, a new type of top-hat transform is used to extract low-frequency features, and then different fusion rules are applied to fuse the low-frequency features and low-frequency background; for high-frequency components, the product of characteristics method is used to integrate the detailed information in high-frequency. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can obtain more detailed information and clearer infrared target fusion results than the traditional multiscale transform methods. Compared with the state-of-the-art fusion methods based on sparse representation, the proposed algorithm is simple and efficacious, and the time consumption is significantly reduced.

Automatic microseismic events detection using morphological multiscale top-hat transformation

The occurrence of microseismic is not random but is related to the physical properties of the underground medium.Due to the low intensity and the influence of noise,microseismic eventually lead to poor signal-to-noise ratio.We proposed a method for automatic detection of microseismic events by adoption of multiscale top-hat transformation.The method is based on the difference between the signal and noise in the multiscale top-hat transform section and achieves the detection on a specific section.The microseismic data are decomposed into different scales by multiscale morphology top-hat transformation firstly.Then the potential microseismic events could be detected by picking up the peak value in the multiscale top-hat section,and the characteristic profile obtains the start point with a specific threshold value.Finally,the synthetic data experiences demonstrate the advantages of this method under strong and weak noisy conditions,and the filed data example also shows its reliability and adaptability.

基于支持度变换和top-hat分解的双色中波红外图像融合

为了解决用多尺度top-hat分解法融合双色中波红外图像时经常存在对比度提升有限、边缘区域失真较重的问题,提出了基于支持度变换和top-hat分解相结合的融合方法。先用支持度变换法将双色中波图像分解为低频图像和支持度图像序列;再从最后一层低频图像中用多尺度top-hat分解法提取各自的亮信息和暗信息;用灰度值取大法分别融合亮信息和暗信息;通过灰度值归一化和高斯滤波分别增强亮、暗信息融合图像;然后融合两低频图像和亮、暗信息增强图像;将融合图像作为新的低频图像和用灰度值取大法融合得到的支持度融合图像序列进行支持度逆变换,得到最终融合图像。该方法的实验结果同采用单一的支持度变换法融合和多尺度top-hat分解法融合相比,融合图像的对比度提升了11.69%,失真度降低了63.42%,局部粗糙度提高了38.12%。说明提出的从低频图像提取亮暗信息,并经过分别融合、增强,再与低频图像进行融合,能有效破解红外融合图像对比度提升和边缘区域失真度降低之间的矛盾,为提高图像融合质量提供了新方法。

A Novel Ship Wake Detection Algorithm Based on WTHT and Radon Transform

This paper proposes a novel ship wake detection algorithm based on the White Top-hat Transform(WTHT)and the Radon transform,which aims to improve the contrast between the ship wake and the background so as to improve the detection performance on Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR)images.The proposed algorithm includes two major processes,and one is to improve the contrast and another one is to locate the ship wake.In high sea state conditions,the contrast of ship wake and background can be very low,which makes it difficult to detect.In the first step,the proposed contrast improvement algorithm is applied to improving the contrast which helps for improving the detection performance.An attribute filter based on edge detection result is adopted here.In the second step the contrast improved image is transformed into the Radon domain followed by peak extraction process to find the wake,the WTHT is used once more in this step.Finally,in the last step,the wake is overlapped on the original image.Experimental results on Tiangong-2 Interferometric Imaging Radar Altimeter(InIRA)images are presented and compared with that obtained by using the classical algorithm,and in this way,the better performance of our algorithm is demonstrated.

Medical Image Enhancement Using Morphological Transformation

Medical imaging includes different modalities and processes to visualize the interior of human body for diagnostic and treatment purpose. However, one of the most common degradations in medical images is their poor contrast quality and noise. The existence of several objects and the close proximity of adjacent pixels values make the diagnostic process a daunting task. The idea of image enhancement techniques is to improve the quality of an image. In this study, morphological transform operation is carried out on medical images to enhance the contrast and quality. A disk shaped mask is used in Top-Hat and Bottom-Hat transform and this mask plays a vital role in the operation. Different types and sizes of medical images need different masks so that they can be successfully enhanced. The method shown in this study takes a mask of an arbitrary size and keeps changing its size until an optimum enhanced image is obtained from the transformation operation. The enhancement is achieved via an iterative exfoliation process. The results indicate that this method improves the contrast of medical images and can help with better diagnosis.

小电流接地系统单相接地故障检测新方法

讨论了电力系统故障发生后,系统对故障检测的要求。利用形态小波对故障后的零序电流信号进行分解,并对分解后的近似信号进行Top-Hat和Bottom-Hat运算,得到零序电流的波谷与波峰信号出现的先后时刻关系,从而进行故障选线,大量的仿真实验证明此方法的有效性。与小波分解相比,此方法运算简单,只涉及到加、减和取极值运算。

基于多尺度形态学滤波器的图像融合新方法

提出了一种保持图像细节和高抗噪性的图像融合新方法。这种方法首先对源图像进行多尺度形态学开闭滤波,得到源图像的低频平滑图像;然后应用多尺度Top-hat变换和Bottom-hat变换来提取小于相应尺度的图像细节特征。因为在较小的尺度特征中包含噪声颗粒的可能性较大,据此修正了Top-hat变换和Bottom-hat变换的相应系数;最后对以上两步骤得到的低频平滑图像和多尺度高频细节图像分别进行图像融合,应用形态学重建过程生成融合图像。实验表明,这种融合方法具有图像细节保持完整和噪声消除效果好的优点,处理效果优于传统的图像融合方法。

Robust Lane Detection and Tracking Based on Machine Vision

Lane detection based on machine vision,a key application in intelligent transportation,is generally characterized by gradient information of lane edge and plays an important role in advanced driver assistance systems(ADAS).However,gradient information varies with illumination changes.In the complex scenes of urban roads,highlight and shadow have effects on the detection,and non-lane objects also lead to false positives.In order to improve the accuracy of detection and meet the robustness requirement,this paper proposes a method of using top-hat transformation to enhance the contrast and filter out the interference of non-lane objects.And then the threshold segmentation algorithm based on local statistical information and Hough transform algorithm with polar angle and distance constraint are used for lane fitting.Finally,Kalman filter is used to correct lane lines which are wrong detected or missed.The experimental results show that computation times meet the real-time requirements,and the overall detection rate of the proposed method is 95.63%.

Automatic recognition and quantitative analysis of Ω phases in Al-Cu-Mg-Ag alloy

The main methods of the second phase quantitative analysis in current material science researches are manual recognition and extracting by using software such as Image Tool and Nano Measurer. The weaknesses such as high labor intensity and low accuracy statistic results exist in these methods. In order to overcome the shortcomings of the current methods, the Ω phase in A1-Cu-Mg-Ag alloy is taken as the research object and an algorithm based on the digital image processing and pattern recognition is proposed and implemented to do the A1 alloy TEM （transmission electron microscope） digital images process and recognize and extract the information of the second phase in the result image automatically. The top-hat transformation of the mathematical morphology, as well as several imaging processing technologies has been used in the proposed algorithm. Thereinto, top-hat transformation is used for elimination of asymmetric illumination and doing Multi-layer filtering to segment Ω phase in the TEM image. The testing results are satisfied, which indicate that the Ω phase with unclear boundary or small size can be recognized by using this method. The omission of these two kinds of Ω phase can be avoided or significantly reduced. More Ω phases would be recognized （growing rate minimum to 2% and maximum to 400% in samples）, accuracy of recognition and statistics results would be greatly improved by using this method. And the manual error can be eliminated. The procedure recognizing and making quantitative analysis of information in this method is automatically completed by the software. It can process one image, including recognition and quantitative analysis in 30 min, but the manual method such as using Image Tool or Nano Measurer need 2 h or more. The labor intensity is effectively reduced and the working efficiency is greatly improved.

保持图像细节的多尺度形态滤波的新方法

提出了一种适于灰度图像细节的多尺度形态滤波(MMFPD)方法。在普通多尺度形态开、闭滤波基础上,增加了多尺度top hat变换和bottom hat变换,用于提取并平滑小于该心渡的特征。此外,较小的尺度特征中包含噪声颗粒的可能性较大,据此修正了top hat变换和bottom hat变换的系数。对标准灰度图像进行滤波处理的实验结果表明,该方法噪声去除效果好,图像细节保持完整,处理效果明显优于传统滤波方法。

基于多尺度柔性形态学滤波器的图像融合

提出了一种基于柔性数学形态学的图像融合新方法。首先,对源图像进行柔性形态学多尺度开闭滤波,得到源图像的低频平滑图像。其次,应用了柔性的多尺度top-hat变换和bottom-hat变换,提取小于相应尺度的图像细节特征。最后,对于以上两步骤得到的低频平滑图像和多尺度高频细节图像分别进行图像融合,应用形态学重建过程生成融合图像。多聚焦图像融合和红外可见光图像融合实验表明,这种融合方法优于相应基于多尺度标准形态学滤波器(MSMF)的图像融合方法,特别适用于受噪声污染的图像融合处理。