Evaluation of Informativeness and Effectiveness of Known Image Fusion Methods

The analysis of fusion methods at the pixel level is carried out in the paper. Their mathematical models in the MATLAB package are implemented. The most effective methods of visible and infrared ranges image fusion are determined by evaluating the effectiveness of methods using the authors' proposed improved method of evaluating the informativeness of images and known metrics. These studies were conducted on a set of test images consisting of ten pairs of spatially synchronized images obtained in the visible and thermal ranges of electromagnetic waves.