The present invention provides a visible-light polarization
image fusion method based on non-subsampled shearlets. At first, Strokes calculation is carried out for different polarization images captured by a multi-
detector camera at the same time to obtain a polarized degree image, a polarized angle image and a
light intensity image by which a polarization feature image of a target is extracted. Then, non-subsampled shearlets transform (NSST)
decomposition is performed on the polarization feature image and the
light intensity image separately. High and low-frequency fusion coefficients are determined separately in a
frequency domain according to window energy and an average value. An initial
fusion image is reconstructed by using NSST inverse transform. Finally, the initial
fusion image is subjected to target enhancement to obtain final
fusion image output. Compared with a conventional target detection method utilizing multi-scale
decomposition, the method provided by the present invention increases means for polarization
feature extraction and target enhancement, effectively increases details of the fusion image, improves target and background contrast, highlights polarization properties of the target, improves the ability of scene
perception and target detection, and is suitable for a target detection
system.