Image Fusion and Its Applications

The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of basic image fusion techniques and an introduction to image fusion applications in variant fields. It is anticipated that this book will be useful for research scientists to capture recent developments and to spark new ideas in image fusion domain. This book emphasizes both basic concepts and advanced applications of image fusion. There are 12 chapters in this book. The first chapter gives a survey of image fusion techniques. A wavelet-based image fusion is then introduced in Chapter 2. The color image fusions are presented in next two chapters. A 3D fusion is proposed in Chapter 5. The following chapters are the exhibitions of application-orientated image fusions, which cover the areas of medical applications, remote sensing and GIS, material analysis, face detection, and plant water stress analysis.