Fusion of IR and Visual Images Based on Gaussian and Laplacian Decomposition Using Histogram Distributions and Edge Selection

Table 3

Comparison with the existing methods (the improved ratio of the averaging method; the performance ranking is shown in parentheses).

	Methods	UN Camp	Dune	Trees
	Li’s [16]	1.277 (5)	1.154 (5)	1.402 (5)
	Lewis’s [19]	1.515 (3)	1.435 (3)	1.575 (4)
	Saeedi’s [21]	1.663 (1)	1.568 (2)	1.795 (2)
	Proposed; (large parameters)	1.562 (2)	1.578 (1)	1.851 (1)
	Proposed; (optimal parameters)	1.400 (4)	1.365 (4)	1.603 (3)
	Li’s [16]	1.075 (4)	1.033 (4)	1.015 (4)
	Lewis’s [19]	1.059 (5)	1.019 (5)	1.011 (5)
	Saeedi’s [21]	1.178 (1)	1.120 (1)	1.099 (2)
	Proposed; (large parameters)	1.146 (2)	1.101 (2)	1.105 (1)
	Proposed; (optimal parameters)	1.130 (3)	1.093 (3)	1.087 (3)