The invention discloses a
remote sensing image fusion method based on a directionlet domain hidden Markov tree (HMT) model. The
remote sensing image fusion method mainly solves the problems of
spectral distortion and lacking of
wavelet transform method
direction information, wherein the problems exists in an HIS method. The
remote sensing image fusion method comprises the following steps: (1) conducting HIS transformation to multispectral images, and obtaining
chrominance (H), luminance (I) and saturation (S); (2) enabling full-color images and the component I to conduct directionlet transformation; (3) respectively establishing HMT model for high-frequency coefficients, training to obtain parameter set estimated values, and calculating
posterior probability; (4) selecting the optimized high-frequency coefficient according to the
posterior probability; (5) fusing low-frequency coefficients by adopting fusion rules of a
genetic algorithm; and (6) conducting directionlet inverse transformation to the fused coefficients to obtain a new component I, then conducting HIS inverse transformation by combining components of H and S, and obtaining a final fused image. According to the
remote sensing image fusion method based on the directionlet domain HMT model, anisotropic characteristics of source images can be fully abstracted, pertinence in data is fully unearthed, detailed information of the fused image is improved, and meanwhile the spectral characteristics of the multispectral images can be better remained unchanged.