| This research presents the concept of an Enhanced and Synthetic Vision System (ESVS) that could help aircraft pilots see in low visibility conditions. The basic idea is that synthetic and infrared imagery would be fused to maximize image content. Three fusion algorithms were implemented and tuned for this particular purpose. Artificially generated infrared images as well as synthetic images were used to evaluate the algorithms' performance. An observer experiment, based on a typical search and rescue scenario, showed that image fusion leads to an increase in useful information. Different registration conditions were also simulated to investigate their effect on a potential ESVS. |
