Evaluation of image fusion and contrast enhancement algorithms for fusing LWIR and MWIR images

Image fusion is an important application for collecting complementary and redundant information observed by different sensors into a single image. In this paper, various image fusion algorithms are compared for long-wave infrared (LWIR) and mid-wave infrared (MWIR) images. Infrared images were enhanced by various contrast enhancement algorithms and the effect of the enhancement on the fusion results is evaluated.