The invention belongs to the technical field of
image fusion, and particularly relates to an
infrared and low-light-level
image fusion improvement method based on rolling guide filtering, which comprises the following steps of S1, acquiring a low-light-level image and an
infrared image, and preprocessing the
infrared image for denoising; s2, converting to an IHS space to extract an intensity component; s3, decomposing the dual-source I component into a small-scale layer, a large-scale layer and a base layer by using rolling guide filtering; s4, performing small-scale layer fusion, and combining an absolute value maximization strategy with non-local similarity weighted denoising; s5, performing large-scale layer fusion, and performing joint sparse low-rank representation by adopting
principal component analysis; s6, fusion of the base layer adopts a
visual saliency mapping method; and S7, after IHS inverse transformation reconstruction, realizing multi-
level fusion in combination with bilateral filtering detail enhancement and a guide filtering
saliency map. According to the invention, based on IHS space and rolling guide filtering multi-scale
decomposition, the effect of cooperative utilization of multi-
modal information is improved, and the method effectively improves the problems of insufficient target detection precision and poor scene reconstruction robustness in a dark environment.