Multi-focus image fusion: A survey of the state of the art

Y Liu, L Wang, J Cheng, C Li, X Chen - Information Fusion, 2020 - Elsevier
Multi-focus image fusion is an effective technique to extend the depth-of-field of optical
lenses by creating an all-in-focus image from a set of partially focused images of the same …

Learning a deep multi-scale feature ensemble and an edge-attention guidance for image fusion

J Liu, X Fan, J Jiang, R Liu, Z Luo - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image fusion integrates a series of images acquired from different sensors, eg, infrared and
visible, outputting an image with richer information than either one. Traditional and recent …

Multi-focus image fusion with a deep convolutional neural network

Y Liu, X Chen, H Peng, Z Wang - Information Fusion, 2017 - Elsevier
As is well known, activity level measurement and fusion rule are two crucial factors in image
fusion. For most existing fusion methods, either in spatial domain or in a transform domain …

From conventional approach to machine learning and deep learning approach: an experimental and comprehensive review of image fusion techniques

G Choudhary, D Sethi - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2023 - Springer
Images captured from a single or multiple imaging sensors with considerable focus or
numerous exposures of the same or different modalities do not provide all relevant …

Image fusion with guided filtering

S Li, X Kang, J Hu - IEEE Transactions on Image processing, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fast and effective image fusion method is proposed for creating a highly informative fused
image through merging multiple images. The proposed method is based on a two-scale …

Ensemble of CNN for multi-focus image fusion

M Amin-Naji, A Aghagolzadeh, M Ezoji - Information fusion, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) based multi-focus image fusion
methods have recently attracted enormous attention. They greatly enhanced the constructed …

Pixel convolutional neural network for multi-focus image fusion

H Tang, B Xiao, W Li, G Wang - Information Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a pixel-wise convolutional neural network (p-CNN) that can recognize
the focused and defocused pixels in source images from its neighbourhood information for …

Multi-focus image fusion with dense SIFT

Y Liu, S Liu, Z Wang - Information Fusion, 2015 - Elsevier
Multi-focus image fusion technique is an important approach to obtain a composite image
with all objects in focus. The key point of multi-focus image fusion is to develop an effective …

Fusion of infrared and visible sensor images based on anisotropic diffusion and Karhunen-Loeve transform

DP Bavirisetti, R Dhuli - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image fusion is a process of generating a more informative image from a set of source
images. Major applications of image fusion are in navigation and military. Here, infrared and …

Multi-focus image fusion with deep residual learning and focus property detection

Y Liu, L Wang, H Li, X Chen - Information Fusion, 2022 - Elsevier
Multi-focus image fusion methods can be mainly divided into two categories: transform
domain methods and spatial domain methods. Recent emerged deep learning (DL)-based …