Application of the discrete Haar wavelet transform to image fusion for nighttime driving

Infrared images can often provide information missing in visible images in a night driving system, but infrared images lack key features needed to operate a vehicle. Image fusion techniques can be used to combine the relevant information from both the visible and infrared images. The need for high frame rates in an automotive application motivates the investigation into computationally simple methods of combining the visible and infrared images. In this paper we present a computationally simple image fusion technique based on the discrete Haar wavelet transform and apply the technique to combine three images from cameras operating in different wavelength bands.