Table 2.

Quantitative comparison of five image fusion methods with Data set-2 image pairs (shown in Fig. 5a and b columns)

Quality metric	Pixel_avg	DWT_avg_max	CT_avg_max	NSCT_avg_max	Proposed method
IE	3.296	4.834	5.213	4.726	4.521
OCE	0.472	0.544	0.595	0.548	0.59
MI	3.08	2.536	2.473	2.652	3.113
SF	14.827	29.117	28.961	28.706	32.704
RSFE	−0.6	−0.217	−0.223	−0.229	−0.116
CC(A,F)	0.798	0.781	0.778	0.784	0.691
CC(B,F)	0.88	0.897	0.898	0.9	0.928
Q AB/F	0.213	0.466	0.443	0.528	0.535
Q	0.692	0.676	0.472	0.744	0.783
Q w	0.471	0.679	0.675	0.696	0.768
Q E	0.371	0.51	0.504	0.531	0.572

Values given in Table 2 are the average values of different images pairs of Dataset-2