How to align two images from different sources?

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Kev
Kev on 20 Sep 2020
Edited: Kev on 24 Sep 2020
Hi!
I am working on a project to fuse two images, RGB + Infrared (1 Channel). I noticed the images from RGB source has a slightly wider angle than IR source. Both image souces have different resolution as well. RGB 1800x1600pixels, whereas IR source 640x512 pixels. I have tried to manually crop and then feed new image into fusion algorithm, but I would not consider my croping to be as good. Is there an optimal way to align two images, so that they can be fed into an algorithm?

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Sai Sri Pathuri
Sai Sri Pathuri on 23 Sep 2020
You may use imfuse function. Link to documentation: https://www.mathworks.com/help/images/ref/imfuse.html
First resize the RGB image and then apply imfuse
a = imread('RGBImage.jpg');
a = imresize(a,[512,640]);
b = imread('IRImage.jpg');
c = imfuse(a,b);
imshow(c)
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Kev
Kev on 24 Sep 2020
Edited: Kev on 24 Sep 2020
Hi Sai!
Thanks a lot for getting back to me! I have attempted above fusion, but it doesn't look very good as you can see shadows. Maybe if I can crop the images properly, maybe it will have less shadow. I am also planning to run the fusion through a different algorithm. My goal is to reduce shadows, or have no shadows at all.
Sample output image 1) https://imgur.com/zZfFaf1
Thanks a lot!!

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