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Multi-Focus Image Fusion Using Cross Bilateral Filter in NSCT Domain

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ICMIP '18: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multimedia and Image Processing

Pages 105 - 109

https://doi.org/10.1145/3195588.3195607

Published: 16 March 2018 Publication History

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Given that the edge details of the image are not well extracted into the fused image, the cross bilateral filter (CBF) which considers both gray level similarities and geometric closeness of the neighboring pixels without smoothing edges is combined with non-subsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) in this paper for multi-focus image fusion. Firstly, the source images are decomposed into low frequency coefficients map and high frequency coefficients map through NSCT. Then the low frequency coefficients will be fused by Sum-Modified-Laplacian (SML) and the fused high frequency coefficient are obtained using CBF, and the high frequency fusion rule is a weighted average method using the weights computed from the detail images that are extracted from the two high frequency coefficient maps. Finally, the inverse NSCT is utilized to get the fused image in which all the objects are clear. At the end of this paper, in order to compare with some traditional fusion methods, some experimental results are displayed to show the superiority of this method.

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https://doi.org/10.1109/CompComm.2018.8780625

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Multi-Focus Image Fusion Using Cross Bilateral Filter in NSCT Domain
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ICMIP 2018: 2018 the 3rd International Conference on Multimedia and Image Processing

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Guiyang, China

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Liu YZhou DNie RHou RDing ZXie R(2018)Brain CT and MRI medical image fusion scheme Using NSST And Dictionary Learning2018 IEEE 4th International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC)10.1109/CompComm.2018.8780625(1579-1583)Online publication date: Dec-2018
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