A hybrid multiple exposure image fusion approach for HDR image synthesis

The latest advancement in imaging applications has increased the need for more High Definition Range (HDR) imaging, which is not easily attainable by common imaging sensors. However, the use of multiple exposure images, that cover multiple exposure settings for the captured scene, and their combination in a single image via image fusion has been proposed in the literature and seems a viable solution. In this paper, the authors combine two image fusion methods to perform multiple exposure fusion. They use Mitianoudis and Stathaki [1] method to fuse the luminance channel and the Mertens et al [2] method to fuse the color channels. The derived fusion output outperforms both individual methods and other state-of-the-art methods.

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