A New Method of Multi-Focus Image Fusion Using Laplacian Operator and Region Optimization

Considering the continuous advancement in the field of imaging sensor, a host of other new issues have emerged. A major problem is how to find focus areas more accurately for multi-focus image fusion. The multi-focus image fusion extracts the focused information from the source images to construct a global in-focus image which includes more information than any of the source images. In this paper, a novel multi-focus image fusion based on Laplacian operator and region optimization is proposed. The evaluation of image saliency based on Laplacian operator can easily distinguish the focus region and out of focus region. And the decision map obtained by Laplacian operator processing has less the residual information than other methods. For getting precise decision map, focus area and edge optimization based on regional connectivity and edge detection have been taken. Finally, the original images are fused through the decision map. Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm outperforms the other series of algorithms in terms of both subjective and objective evaluations.

Efficient Compressive Multi-Focus Image Fusion

Two key points of pixel-level multi-focus image fusion are the clarity measure and the pixel coeffi- cients fusion rule. Along with different improvements on these two points, various fusion schemes have been proposed in literatures. However, the traditional clarity measures are not designed for compressive imaging measurements which are maps of source sense with random or likely ran- dom measurements matrix. This paper presents a novel efficient multi-focus image fusion frame- work for compressive imaging sensor network. Here the clarity measure of the raw compressive measurements is not obtained from the random sampling data itself but from the selected Hada- mard coefficients which can also be acquired from compressive imaging system efficiently. Then, the compressive measurements with different images are fused by selecting fusion rule. Finally, the block-based CS which coupled with iterative projection-based reconstruction is used to re- cover the fused image. Experimental results on common used testing data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Joint Multi-Focus Fusion and Bayer ImageRestoration

In this paper, a joint multifocus image fusion and Bayer pattern image restoration algorithm for raw images of single-sensor colorimaging devices is proposed. Different from traditional fusion schemes, the raw Bayer pattern images are fused before colorrestoration. Therefore, the Bayer image restoration operation is only performed one time. Thus, the proposed algorithm is moreefficient than traditional fusion schemes. In detail, a clarity measurement of Bayer pattern image is defined for raw Bayer patternimages, and the fusion operator is performed on superpixels which provide powerful grouping cues of local image feature. Theraw images are merged with refined weight map to get the fused Bayer pattern image, which is restored by the demosaicingalgorithm to get the full resolution color image. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can obtain betterfused results with more natural appearance and fewer artifacts than the traditional algorithms.

Fuzzy Based Hybrid Focus Value Estimation for Multi Focus Image Fusion

Due to limited depth-of-field of digital single-lens reflex cameras,the scene content within a limited distance from the imaging plane remains in focus while other objects closer to or further away from the point of focus appear as blurred(out-of-focus)in the image.Multi-Focus Image Fusion can be used to reconstruct a fully focused image from two or more partially focused images of the same scene.In this paper,a new Fuzzy Based Hybrid Focus Measure(FBHFM)for multi-focus image fusion has been proposed.Optimal block size is very critical step for multi-focus image fusion.Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO)algorithm has been used to find optimal size of the block of the images for extraction of focus measure features.After finding optimal blocks,three focus measures Sum of Modified Laplacian,Gray Level Variance and Contrast Visibility has been extracted and combined these focus measures by using intelligent fuzzy technique.Fuzzy based hybrid intelligent focus values were estimated using contrast visibility measure to generate focused image.Different sets of multi-focus images have been used in detailed experimentation and compared the results with state-of-the-art existing techniques such as Genetic Algorithm(GA),Principal Component Analysis(PCA),Laplacian Pyramid discrete wavelet transform(DWT),and aDWT for image fusion.It has been found that proposed method performs well as compare to existing methods.

Multi-focus image fusion based on fully convolutional networks

We propose a multi-focus image fusion method, in which a fully convolutional network for focus detection(FD-FCN) is constructed. To obtain more precise focus detection maps, we propose to add skip layers in the network to make both detailed and abstract visual information available when using FD-FCN to generate maps. A new training dataset for the proposed network is constructed based on dataset CIFAR-10. The image fusion algorithm using FD-FCN contains three steps: focus maps are obtained using FD-FCN, decision map generation occurs by applying a morphological process on the focus maps, and image fusion occurs using a decision map. We carry out several sets of experiments, and both subjective and objective assessments demonstrate the superiority of the proposed fusion method to state-of-the-art algorithms.

Multi-focus image fusion based on fractional-orderderivative and intuitionistic fuzzy sets

Multi-focus image fusion is an increasingly important component in image fusion,and it plays a key role in imaging.In this paper,we put forward a novel multi-focus image fusion method which employs fractional-order derivative and intuitionistic fuzzy sets.The original image is decomposed into a base layer and a detail layer.Furthermore,a new fractional-order spatial frequency is built to reflect the clarity of the image.The fractional-order spatial frequency is used as a rule for detail layers fusion,and intuitionistic fuzzy sets are introduced to fuse base layers.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed fusion method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods for multi-focus image fusion.

High quality multi-focus polychromatic composite image fusion algorithm based on filtering in frequency domain and synthesis in space domain

A novel multi-focus polychromatic image fusion algorithm based on filtering in the frequency domain using fast Fourier transform(FFT) and synthesis in the space domain(FFDSSD) is presented in this paper.First,the original multi-focus images are transformed into their frequency data by FFT for easy and accurate clarity determination.Then a Gaussian low-pass filter is used to filter the high frequency information corresponding to the image saliencies.After an inverse FFT,the filtered images are obtained.The deviation between the filtered images and the original ones,representing the clarity of the image,is used to select the pixels from the multi-focus images to reconstruct a completely focused image.These operations in space domain preserve the original information as much as possible and are relatively insensitive to misregistration scenarios with respect to transform domain methods.The polychromatic noise is well considered and successfully avoided while the information in different chromatic channels is preserved.A natural,nice-looking fused microscopic image for human visual evaluations is obtained in a dedicated experiment.The experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm has a good performance in objective quality metrics and runtime efficiency.

Multi-focus image fusion with the all convolutional neural network

A decision map contains complete and clear information about the image to be fused, which is crucial to various image fusion issues, especially multi-focus image fusion. However, in order to get a satisfactory image fusion effect, getting a decision map is very necessary and usually difficult to finish. In this letter, we address this problem with convolutional neural network(CNN), aiming to get a state-of-the-art decision map. The main idea is that the max-pooling of CNN is replaced by a convolution layer, the residuals are propagated backwards by gradient descent, and the training parameters of the individual layers of the CNN are updated layer by layer. Based on this, we propose a new all CNN(ACNN)-based multi-focus image fusion method in spatial domain. We demonstrate that the decision map obtained from the ACNN is reliable and can lead to high-quality fusion results. Experimental results clearly validate that the proposed algorithm can obtain state-of-the-art fusion performance in terms of both qualitative and quantitative evaluations.

深度学习多聚焦图像融合方法综述

多聚焦图像融合是一种以软件方式有效扩展光学镜头景深的技术,该技术通过综合同一场景下多幅部分聚焦图像包含的互补信息,生成一幅更加适合人类观察或计算机处理的全聚焦融合图像,在数码摄影、显微成像等领域具有广泛的应用价值。传统的多聚焦图像融合方法往往需要人工设计图像的变换模型、活跃程度度量及融合规则,无法全面充分地提取和融合图像特征。深度学习由于强大的特征学习能力被引入多聚焦图像融合问题研究,并迅速发展为该问题的主流研究方向,多种多样的方法不断提出。鉴于国内鲜有多聚焦图像融合方面的研究综述,本文对基于深度学习的多聚焦图像融合方法进行系统综述,将现有方法分为基于深度分类模型和基于深度回归模型两大类,对每一类中的代表性方法进行介绍;然后基于3个多聚焦图像融合数据集和8个常用的客观质量评价指标,对25种代表性融合方法进行了性能评估和对比分析;最后总结了该研究方向存在的一些挑战性问题,并对后续研究进行展望。本文旨在帮助相关研究人员了解多聚焦图像融合领域的研究现状,促进该领域的进一步发展。