A pan-sharpening based on the non-subsampled contourlet transform: Application to worldview-2 imagery

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1806-1815

  El Mezouar, Miloud Chikr ^a   Kpalma, Kidiyo ^b   Taleb, Nasreddine ^a   Ronsin, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIDI BEL ABBES   (Algeria)

^b IETR   (France)

Author keywords

Fusion rule; non subsampled contourlet transform (NSCT); pan sharpening; quality assessment; upsampling

Indexed keywords

PIXELS;

FUSION RULE; NON SUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORM (NSCT); PAN-SHARPENING; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; UP SAMPLING;

SIGNAL SAMPLING;

DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; IMAGING METHOD; PIXEL; SAMPLING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84903303692     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2306332     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. V. P. Shah, N. H. Younan, and R. L. King, "An efficient pan-sharpening method via a combined adaptive PCA approach and contourlets," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 1323-1335, May 2008.
2. T. M. Tu, S. C. Su, H. C. Shyu, and P. S. Huang, "A new look at IHS-like image fusion methods," Inf. Fusion, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 177-186, Sep. 2001. (Pubitemid 33396500)
3. M. Chikr El-Mezouar, N. Taleb, K. Kpalma, and J. Ronsin, "A new intensity-hue-saturation fusion technique imagery with color distortion reduction for IKONOS," ICGST Int. GVIP J., vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 53-60, 2009.
4. M. Chikr El-Mezouar, N. Taleb, K. Kpalma, and J. Ronsin, "An IHS-based fusion for color distortion reduction and vegetation enhancement in IKONOS imagery," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 1590-1602, May 2011.
5. P. Chavez, S. C. Sides, and J. A. Anderson, "Comparison of three different methods to merge multiresolution and multispectral data: Landsat TM and SPOT panchromatic," Photogramm. Eng. Remote Sens., vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 295-303, 1991.
6. I. Amro, J. Mateos, M. Vega, R. Molina, and A. K. Katsaggelos, "A survey of classical methods and new trends in pansharpening of multispectral images,"EURASIPJ.Adv.Signal Process., vol.2011,no. 79,pp.1-22,2011.
7. M. N. Do and M. Vetterli, "The contourlet transform: An efficient directional multiresolution image representation," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 2091-2106, Dec. 2005. (Pubitemid 41781516)
8. M. Chikr El-Mezouar, N. Taleb, K. Kpalma, and J. Ronsin, "Edge preservation in ikonos multispectral and panchromatic imagery pan-sharpening," in Proc. 1st Taibah Univ. Int. Conf. Comput. Inf. Technol. (ICCIT 2012). Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia, 2012, vols. 1 and 2, pp. 154-159.
9. T. Xu and Y. Fang, "Remote sensing image interpolation via the nonsubsampled contourlet transform," in Proc. Int. Conf. Image Anal. Signal Process., Zhejiang, China, 2010, pp. 695-698.
10. K. Amolins, Y. Zhang, and P. Dare, "Wavelet based image fusion techniques - An introduction, review and comparison," ISPRS J. Photogramm. Remote Sens., vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 249-263, Sep. 2007. (Pubitemid 47333076)
11. A. L. da Cunha, J. Zhou, and M. N. Do, "The nonsubsampled contourlet transform: Theory, design, and applications," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 3089-3101, Oct. 2006. (Pubitemid 44473649)
12. L. Xu, J. Du, and Q. Li, "Image fusion based on nonsubsampled contourlet transform and saliency-motivated pulse coupled neural networks," Math. Probl. Eng., vol. 2013, p. 10, 2013, article ID 135182.
13. Q. Zhang and B. Guo, "Multifocus image fusion using the nonsubsampled contourlet transform," Signal Process., vol. 89, no. 7, pp. 1334-1346, Jul. 2009.
14. J. Zhou, D. L. Civco, and J. A. Silander, "A wavelet transform method to merge Landsat TM and SPOT panchromatic data," Int. J. Remote Sens., vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 743-757, 1998.
15. X. Otazu, M. Gonzalez-Audicana, O. Fors, and J. Nunez, "Introduction of sensor spectral response into image fusion methods. Application to waveletbased methods," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 43, no. 10, pp. 2376-2385, Oct. 2005. (Pubitemid 41637795)
16. Z. Wang, A. C. Bovik, H. R. Sheikh, and E. P. Simoncelli, "Image quality assessment: From error visibility to structural similarity," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 600-612, Apr. 2004.
17. Z. Wang and A. C. Bovik, "A universal image quality index," IEEE Signal Process. Lett., vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 81-84, Mar. 2002. (Pubitemid 34554870)
18. M. Choi, "A new intensity-hue-saturation fusion approach to image fusion with a tradeoff parameter," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 1672-1682, Jun. 2006. (Pubitemid 43824512)
19. R. H. Yuhas, A. F. H. Goetz, and J. W. Boardman, "Discrimination among semi-arid landscape endmembers using the spectral angle mapper (SAM) algorithm," in Proc. Summaries 3rd Annu. JPL Airborne Geosci. Workshop, 1992, vol. 1, pp. 147-149.
20. L. Wald, "Quality of high resolution synthesized images: Is there a simple criterion?," in Proc. 3rd Conf. Fusion Earth Data: Merging Point Meas., Raster Maps Remotely Sensed Images, Sophia Antipolis, France, Jan. 2000, pp. 99-105.
21. L. Alparone, B. Aiazzi, S. Baronti, A. Garzelli, F. Nencini, and M. Selva, "Multispectral and panchromatic data fusion assessment without reference," Photogramm. Eng. Remote Sens., vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 193-200, 2008. (Pubitemid 351224050)
22. L. Wald, T. Ranchin, and M. Mangolini, "Fusion of satellite images of different spatial resolutions: Assessing the quality of resulting images," Photogramm. Eng. Remote Sens., vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 691-699, 1997.
23. Y. Zhang and G. Hong, "An IHS and wavelet integrated approach to improve pan-sharpening visual quality of natural colour IKONOS and QuickBird images," Inf. Fusion, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 225-234, Sep. 2005. (Pubitemid 40537896)
24. P. S. Pradhan, R. L. King, N. H. Younan, and D. W. Holcomb, "Estimation of the number of decomposition levels for a wavelet-based multiresolution multisensor image fusion," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 3674-3686, Dec. 2006. (Pubitemid 44955566)
25. M. Qiguang and W. Baoshu, "A novel image fusion method using contourlet transform," in Proc. Int. Conf. Commun. Circuits Syst., 2006, vol. 1, pp. 548-552.
26. IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Technical Committee. (2012) [Online]. Available: http://www.grss-ieee.org/community/technical-committees/data-fusion/.
27. L. Alparone, L. Wald, J. Chanussot, C. Thomas, P. Gamba, and L. M. Bruce, "Comparison of pansharpening algorithms: Outcome of the 2006 GRS-S data fusion contest," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 45, no. 10, pp. 3012-3021, Oct. 2007.
28. M. Callaghan. (2013, Aug.). "Bar Chart with Error Bars," Matlab Central [Online]. Available: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/ fileexchange/ 30639-bar-chart-with-error-bars.
29. T. Updike, C. Comp. (2010, Nov.). "Radiometric Use of WorldView-2 Imagery," DigitalGlobe Technical Note [Online]. Available: http://www. digitalglobe.com/sites/default/files/Radiometric-Use-of-WorldView-2-Imagery(1). pdf.