A Review of Image Fusion Techniques

The technique of blending two images or more than two images which produces outcome as the composite fused image. The obtained fused image is the upgraded version of original images because it has all the salient information. The present applications makes majority usage of this fused image to speed up their processing tasks in their respective fields. Recent real-time applications which require image fusion are remote sensing applications, medical applications, surveillance application, photography applications etc. The broad categorization of image fusion techniques are Non-transform domain or spatial domain and Transform domain or frequency domain. This paper initiates with the introduction of image fusion. In the second section it explains the levels of fusion. The third section explains generic image fusion strategy. Further sections elaborates the taxonomy of image fusion techniques and their comparative tables lists all the merits and demerits of the same.