High resolution panchromatic imagery can be used to increase the spatial resolution of low resolution spectral imagery through spatial/spectral sharpening techniques. Recently, sharpening techniques have been presented that use a multiresolution analysis by manipulating the images at different resolution scales that use a Laplacian pyramid or wavelet transform. This paper presents a model for s...

Motivated by some recent work in active contour applications, we study the use of Sobolev gradients for PDE-based image diffusion and sharpening. We begin by studying, for the case of isotropic diffusion, the gradient descent/ascent equation obtained by modifying the usual metric on the space of images, which is the L metric, to a Sobolev metric. We present existence and uniqueness results for ...

A critical analysis of remote sensing image fusion methods based on the super-resolution (SR) paradigm is presented in this paper. Very recent algorithms have been selected among the pioneering studies adopting a new methodology and the most promising solutions. After introducing the concept of super-resolution and modeling the approach as a constrained optimization problem, different SR soluti...

In research of photoelasticity, photoelastic fringe patterns are obtained through a circular polariscope with different optical arrangements and they are processed with image processing techniques in a personal computer. Image processing techniques are reviewed and discussed for stress analysis of the photoelastic fringes in this paper. The image processing techniques include fringe sharpening,...

Image data sharpening is a challenging field of remote sensing science, which has become more relevant as high spatial-resolution satellites and superspectral sensors have emerged. Although the spectral property is crucial for mineral mapping, spatial resolution is also important as it allows targeted minerals/rocks to be identified/interpreted in a spatial context. Therefore, improving the spa...

Conventional techniques for image sharpening tend to introduce artifacts around edges producing a ringing effect. In this paper we propose a technique based on local derivatives to produce signature preserving sharpening. The performance of the technique is evaluated on synthetic imagery and remote sensing imagery. It is found that applying the technique in an iterative manner on zoomed imagery...

Melissa Strait, Sheida Rahmani, Daria Markurjev Faculty Advisor: Todd Wittman UCLA Department of Mathematics August 2008 Abstract Pan-sharpening combines a low-resolution color multispectral image with a high-resolution grayscale panchromatic image to create a high-resolution fused color image. In this paper we examine five different pan-sharpening methods: IHS, PCA, Wavelet fusion, P+XS, and V...