A Multi-focus Image Fusion Method Based on Laplacian Pyramid

This paper presented a simple and efficient algorithm for multi-focus image fusion, which used a multi-resolution signal decomposition scheme called Laplacian pyramid method. The principle of Laplacian pyramid transform is introduced, and based on it the fusion strategy is described in detail. The method mainly composed of three steps. Firstly, the Laplacian pyramids of each source image are deconstructed separately, and then each level of new Laplacian pyramid is fused by adopting different fusion rules. To the top level, it adopts the maximum region information rule; and to the rest levels, it adopts the maximum region energy rule. Finally, the fused image is obtained by inverse Laplacian pyramid transform. Two sets of images are applied to verify the fusion approach proposed and compared it with other fusion approaches. By analyzing the experimental results, it showed that this method has good performance, and the quality of the fused image is better than the results of other methods.

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