• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 16, Issue 1, 013501 (2018)
Jin Zhu, Weiqi Jin*, Li Li, Zhenghao Han, and Xia Wang
Author Affiliations
  • School of Optoelectronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL201816.013501 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Jin Zhu, Weiqi Jin, Li Li, Zhenghao Han, Xia Wang. Fusion of the low-light-level visible and infrared images for night-vision context enhancement[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2018, 16(1): 013501 Copy Citation Text show less
    The proposed infrared and visible image FNCE.
    Fig. 1. The proposed infrared and visible image FNCE.
    Test pairs of visible and infrared images captured under low-light-level conditions. (a) “Queen’s Road,” (b) “Buildings.”
    Fig. 2. Test pairs of visible and infrared images captured under low-light-level conditions. (a) “Queen’s Road,” (b) “Buildings.”
    Adaptive brightness stretching method.
    Fig. 3. Adaptive brightness stretching method.
    Initial enhancement results for the “Queen’s Road” visible image. (a) The original, (b) result with Zhou’s method[7], and (c) result with the proposed method.
    Fig. 4. Initial enhancement results for the “Queen’s Road” visible image. (a) The original, (b) result with Zhou’s method[7], and (c) result with the proposed method.
    Structure of the hybrid MSD with the GF and the GDGF.
    Fig. 5. Structure of the hybrid MSD with the GF and the GDGF.
    Fusion results of different methods for the test images.
    Fig. 6. Fusion results of different methods for the test images.
    MethodIEAGQGPSVIFF
    GFF6.60930.01000.613216.48000.4278
    GTF6.32750.00610.284713.75860.2205
    GFCE6.81060.01520.361219.57980.5648
    FNCE6.97860.01870.602920.69760.6580
    Table 1. Quantitative Assessments of Different Methods
    MethodGFFGTFGFCEFNCE
    Time (s)0.5266.8331.6052.069
    Table 2. Average Running Time on 640 × 480 Images
    Jin Zhu, Weiqi Jin, Li Li, Zhenghao Han, Xia Wang. Fusion of the low-light-level visible and infrared images for night-vision context enhancement[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2018, 16(1): 013501
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