The invention relates to the field of
image processing, in particular to an
infrared and visible light
image fusion method based on a symbiotic statistics induced weighted
total variation model, which comprises the following steps of: performing
gray level quantization on an
infrared image, and constructing a local
gray level symbiotic matrix for each pixel point to calculate a symbiotic probability; generating a spatial adaptive symbiotic weight map capable of quantifying the regional texture flatness based on the probability; introducing the weight map into a total variation regular term, constructing a weighted
total variation model, and adaptively adjusting the smoothness intensity of different regions of the image by the model by using the weight map; and solving the model by adopting an alternating direction
multiplier method to obtain a final
fusion image. According to the method, adaptive
noise and edge distinguishing is realized, and the thermal
noise of the
infrared image is effectively suppressed. According to the method, adaptive
noise and edge distinguishing is realized through symbiotic statistics, thermal noise of the
infrared image is effectively suppressed, detail textures of the visible light image are reserved, and the visual quality and information integrity of the fused image are effectively improved.