An Improved Infrared/Visible Fusion for Astronomical Images

Table 1

Quantitative comparison.

Dataset	Technique
Andromeda galaxy (M31)	Proposed	0.8220	0.8319	0.7707	0.4804	0.6461	0.3487	0.6612	0.4615
	Ellmauthaler et al. [8]	0.7179	0.8444	0.7345	0.3647	0.6350	0.2229	0.5610	0.3387
	MSVD [28]	0.6452	0.6946	0.6243	0.4148	0.4535	0.4432	0.0045	0.2675
	NSCT [27]	0.6259	0.6003	0.5576	0.2641	0.4606	0.1777	0.3432	0.2689
	DTCWT [26]	0.7085	0.8134	0.6573	0.3113	0.5436	0.1682	0.2682	0.2290
	RP [25]	0.4706	0.5416	0.5102	0.2514	0.3970	0.5282	0.2075	0.2026
Jupiter’s moon	Proposed	0.7927	0.7255	0.7814	0.4622	0.7566	0.3433	0.6725	0.5617
	Ellmauthaler et al. [8]	0.2832	0.6477	0.6343	0.4230	0.7398	0.1768	0.5672	0.5614
	MSVD [28]	0.4780	0.4970	0.5217	0.5243	0.5292	0.4599	0.0065	0.4923
	NSCT [27]	0.4155	0.4083	0.4631	0.5279	0.5212	0.2672	0.5001	0.6139
	DTCWT [26]	0.4571	0.5932	0.5851	0.3476	0.5973	0.1805	0.4785	0.4844
	RP [25]	0.3467	0.3989	0.4022	0.4749	0.3919	0.4825	0.0183	0.3634
Nabula (M16)	Proposed	0.7399	0.4896	0.8461	0.8587	0.8645	0.7646	0.7553	0.5652
	Ellmauthaler et al. [8]	0.7318	0.4230	0.8446	0.8494	0.8563	0.5736	0.5424	0.5494
	MSVD [28]	0.4918	0.4120	0.6466	0.6704	0.6539	0.5598	0.0051	0.4331
	NSCT [27]	0.5204	0.2980	0.6037	0.5899	0.6013	0.4916	0.3953	0.5058
	DTCWT [26]	0.6736	0.3608	0.8023	0.8225	0.8125	0.4477	0.4631	0.5079
	RP [25]	0.5885	0.3099	0.6834	0.6818	0.6934	0.6597	0.1708	0.4639