waveblend.txt

Image Fusion Techniues

WAVEBLEND(1)                      User Manual                     WAVEBLEND(1)



NAME
       waveblend - Fuse images into a single focus-enhanced image.

SYNOPSIS
       waveblend [options] outputimage image1 image2 [image3 [..]]

DESCRIPTION
       Use a wavelet based image fusion algorithm to merge all the images into
       one output image so that the best focused area of each input  image  is
       retained in the final image.

OPTIONS
       --predenoise <thresh>
              Apply soft threshhold denoising on all the input images individ-
              ually before any further processing is done.  The  thresh  value
              must  be  in a range of 0.0 to 1.0. The denoising is done on the
              grayvalue image, which - for a  normalized  image  -  spans  the
              range  0.0 to 1.0. All values below the threshhold value will be
              set to zero.

       --postdenoise <thresh>
              Apply soft denoising onto the fused grayscale image. The process
              is the same as for the predenoise option.

       --debug
              Graphically  display  the fusion process steps. The first images
              are the input images  (not  denoised  in  case  predenoising  is
              used).  Below,  the fused grayscale image is displayed (denoised
              in case postdenoising is used). Below is the topology map of the
              fused image. At last, the color map-reconstructed fused image is
              shown.

       outputimage
              The filename of the fused image file to generate. Bug: JPG  does
              not seem to work as output format. Use PNG instead.

       image[..]
              The input image files.

BUGS
       The outputimage cannot be a JPG file.

AUTHOR
       Sebastian Nowozin <nowozin at cs dot tu dash berlin dot de>



waveblend                          JULY 2004                      WAVEBLEND(1)