A novel method for self-adaptive dual-channel pulse coupled neural networks (DC-PCNN) based on PSO evolutionary learning is proposed in order to overcome the difficulty of parameters selection of DC-PCNN.In this study an evolutionary learning algorithm and a new optimization criterion are proposed to optimize the parameters of PCNN for image fusion.In contrast with classical DC-PCNN method that needs to try different parameters settings manually
the proposed method can find the optimal parameters adaptively.Experimental results obtained on benchmark databases verify the above advantages.