ImgFusion 0.1 Beta 3

ImgFusion - Image fusion library for your use.

Image fusion library for your use.

ImgFusion was designed to be multi-platform library that can be used for image fusion. The application is written in C++.

Image fusion is a process of combining multiple images into a single image which contains as much information from the source images as possible. Image fusion has many applications in fields such as medicine, GIS, security or photography.

Here is a short list of how image fusion may be used:
- Extending depth of focus - multiple images with the same contents but varying quality (photographs for example) may be fused together to obtain perfect result. Typical in microscopy where it is hard to focus on entire volume of the observed specimen.
- Increasing spatial resolution of existing map by combining a low resolution color map with high resolution grayscale detail map.
- Visualization of CT, MRI or PET data, image guided surgery, image guided radiotherapy.
- Additional sharpening of blurred photographs taken both with and without flash to construct perfect sharp photograph with natural colors.

ImgFusion features:

- Laplacean operator based fusion.
- Fast method producing good looking results.
- Real valued wavelet transform fusion.
- Better in preserving contrast than Laplacean method, introduces ugly artefacts on sharp edges.
- Complex valued dual tree wavelet transform fusion.
- Slow method producing best looking results.

- Color images.
- By now color images are converted to grayscale. Restoring color information as a postprocessing will be added soon.
- Image registration.
- Not implemented yet.

ImgFusion 0.1 Beta 3 is licensed as Freeware for the Windows operating system / platform. ImgFusion is provided as a free download for all software users (Freeware).