Visible and infrared image fusion(VIF)aims to combine information from visible and infrared images into a single fused image.Previous VIF methods usually employ a color space transformation to keep the hue and saturat...Visible and infrared image fusion(VIF)aims to combine information from visible and infrared images into a single fused image.Previous VIF methods usually employ a color space transformation to keep the hue and saturation from the original visible image.However,for fast VIF methods,this operation accounts for the majority of the calculation and is the bottleneck preventing faster processing.In this paper,we propose a fast fusion method,FCDFusion,with little color deviation.It preserves color information without color space transformations,by directly operating in RGB color space.It incorporates gamma correction at little extra cost,allowing color and contrast to be rapidly improved.We regard the fusion process as a scaling operation on 3D color vectors,greatly simplifying the calculations.A theoretical analysis and experiments show that our method can achieve satisfactory results in only 7 FLOPs per pixel.Compared to state-of-theart fast,color-preserving methods using HSV color space,our method provides higher contrast at only half of the computational cost.We further propose a new metric,color deviation,to measure the ability of a VIF method to preserve color.It is specifically designed for VIF tasks with color visible-light images,and overcomes deficiencies of existing VIF metrics used for this purpose.Our code is available at https://github.com/HeasonLee/FCDFusion.展开更多
Optical security devices play an essential role in the fight against counterfeiting. In this paper, we study and design a pair of metal-dielectric optical filters based on metameric effect, which offer a hidden image ...Optical security devices play an essential role in the fight against counterfeiting. In this paper, we study and design a pair of metal-dielectric optical filters based on metameric effect, which offer a hidden image effect by the color shift at a specific angle of observation. Compared with all-dielectric multilayer system, the metal-dielectric multilayer structure has larger color shift with varying incident angle, higher color saturation and fewer layers. Finally, the stacks with 5 layers and 7 layers are achieved, and the color difference index is only 0.71, which shows good metameric matching effect. Simultaneously, the sensitivity of filters to deposition errors is analyzed when the thickness deviation is ±2%, and the results show that the two filters have good manufacturability.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.62171038,61827901,and 62088101.
文摘Visible and infrared image fusion(VIF)aims to combine information from visible and infrared images into a single fused image.Previous VIF methods usually employ a color space transformation to keep the hue and saturation from the original visible image.However,for fast VIF methods,this operation accounts for the majority of the calculation and is the bottleneck preventing faster processing.In this paper,we propose a fast fusion method,FCDFusion,with little color deviation.It preserves color information without color space transformations,by directly operating in RGB color space.It incorporates gamma correction at little extra cost,allowing color and contrast to be rapidly improved.We regard the fusion process as a scaling operation on 3D color vectors,greatly simplifying the calculations.A theoretical analysis and experiments show that our method can achieve satisfactory results in only 7 FLOPs per pixel.Compared to state-of-theart fast,color-preserving methods using HSV color space,our method provides higher contrast at only half of the computational cost.We further propose a new metric,color deviation,to measure the ability of a VIF method to preserve color.It is specifically designed for VIF tasks with color visible-light images,and overcomes deficiencies of existing VIF metrics used for this purpose.Our code is available at https://github.com/HeasonLee/FCDFusion.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61275050)the Strategic Emerging Industries Foundation of Fujian Province(No.[2013]609)
文摘Optical security devices play an essential role in the fight against counterfeiting. In this paper, we study and design a pair of metal-dielectric optical filters based on metameric effect, which offer a hidden image effect by the color shift at a specific angle of observation. Compared with all-dielectric multilayer system, the metal-dielectric multilayer structure has larger color shift with varying incident angle, higher color saturation and fewer layers. Finally, the stacks with 5 layers and 7 layers are achieved, and the color difference index is only 0.71, which shows good metameric matching effect. Simultaneously, the sensitivity of filters to deposition errors is analyzed when the thickness deviation is ±2%, and the results show that the two filters have good manufacturability.
