Multi-source image fusion method based on synchronous orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm

The invention discloses a multi-source image fusion method based on the synchronous orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm. The multi-source image fusion method comprises the following steps: sampling a source image pixel by pixel in an overlapping manner into image blocks of the same size by a sliding window of the fixed size and expanding each image block by columns into column vectors; obtaining the sparse representation coefficient corresponding to each vector on the over-complete dictionary by the synchronous orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm; fusing the corresponding coefficient by the maximum absolute value method; inverse-transforming the fused sparse representation coefficient into the fusion result vector of corresponding to the vectors according to the over-complete dictionary; and restoring all the fusion result vectors to image blocks and re-constructing to obtain the fused image. The invention fully considers the intrinsic characteristics of the image sparsity and the method using sparse representation can more effectively present the useful information of each source image and achieve better fusion effect, therefore, the invention is of great significance and practical value to the post-processing and image display of various application systems.