• DocumentCode
    1134870
  • Title

    Level Selection for Multiscale Fusion of Out-of-Focus Image

  • Author

    Li, Rui ; Zhang, Yu-Jin

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    617
  • Lastpage
    620
  • Abstract
    Since multiscale decomposition-based image fusion using different levels appears to provide different fusion performance, a novel method of decomposition level selection for out-of-focus image fusion is presented in this letter. This method uses the information related to the energy difference computed from higher band in multiscale decomposition. The proposed method achieves similar fusion results compared with that obtained by actual best decomposition level in different cases.
  • Keywords
    image reconstruction; mean square error methods; decomposition level selection; image fusion; multiscale decomposition; out-of-focus image; Convergence; Discrete wavelet transforms; Image analysis; Image fusion; Image quality; Image reconstruction; Laplace equations; Performance evaluation; Signal processing algorithms; Image fusion; level selection; multiscale decomposition; out-of-focus;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Signal Processing Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1070-9908
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LSP.2005.853051
  • Filename
    1495426