APPLICATION OF IMAGE FUSION FOR ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF AN IMAGE

Advances in technology have brought about extensive research in the field of image fusion. Image fusion is one of the most researched challenges of Face Recognition. Face Recognition (FR) is the process by which the brain and mind understand, interpret and identify or verify human faces.. Image fusion is the combination of two or more source images which vary in resolution, instrument modality, or image capture technique into a single composite representation. Thus, the source images are complementary in many ways, with no one input image being an adequate data representation of the scene. Therefore, the goal of an image fusion algorithm is to integrate the redundant and complementary information obtained from the source images in order to form a new image which provides a better description of the scene for human or machine perception. In this paper we have proposed a novel approach of pixel level image fusion using PCA that will remove the image blurredness in two images and reconstruct a new de-blurred fused image. The proposed approach is based on the calculation of Eigen faces with Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has been most widely used method for dimensionality reduction and feature extraction.