Preface; Acknowledgement; Dedication; List of figures; List of tables; 1. Introduction; 2. Literature review; 3. Image fusion using different edge preserving filters; 4. Image fusion: model based approach with degradation estimation; 5. Use of self-similarity and Gabor Prior; 6. Image fusion: application to super-resolution of natural images; 7. Conclusions and directions for future research; Bibliography; Index.