A novel approach for fusing LIDAR and visual camera images in unstructured environment

Image fusion is the process of merging all similar information from two or more images into a single image. The aim is to provide an image fusion method for fusing the images from the different modalities so that the fusion image will give more information without losing input information and also without any redundancy. This paper gives the efficient method for fusion purpose, by fusing LIDAR and visual camera images. The objective of this proposed method is to develop an image fusion algorithm and its applications in automated navigation in an unstructured environment.