Blind model-based fusion of multi-band and panchromatic images

This paper proposes a blind model-based fusion method to combine a low-spatial resolution multi-band image and a high-spatial resolution panchromatic image. This method is blind in the sense that the spatial and spectral responses in the degradation model are unknown and estimated from the observed data pair. The Gaussian and total variation priors have been used to regularize the ill-posed fusion problem. The formulated optimization problem associated with the image fusion can be attacked efficiently using a recently developed robust multi-band image fusion algorithm in [1]. Experimental results including qualitative and quantitative ones show that the fused image can combine the spectral information from the multi-band image and the high spatial resolution information from the panchromatic image effectively with very competitive computational time.