Title
Multi-focus image fusion with random walks and guided filters
Abstract
Multi-focus image fusion technique is able to help obtaining an all-focused image, which is advantage to human vision and image processing. In this paper, a novel multi-focus image fusion method is proposed based on random walk and guided filter. In the proposed method, the decomposition function and the optimizing function of random walk are used in multi-focus image fusion. And the random walk is also utilized for weight maps directly. The advantages of random walk and guided filter in image fusion are fully utilized by regulating proportional coefficients artificially. The proposed method concludes six steps: first, decomposing source images into detail layers and base layers with random walk; second, the random walk is used for weight maps directly and the guided filter is used as smoothing filters to get the streamlined weight maps of the detail layers and the base layers, respectively; third, the weight maps of the detail layers and the base layers are acquired by summing the initializing weight maps in different proportions; and then, the final weight maps of the detail layers are acquired using random walk for optimizing. After that, the fused detail layer and base layer are obtained by weighted average of detail layers and base layers, singly. Finally, the fused image is gained by summing up the fused base layer and the fused detail layer. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms many other approaches in both subjective and objective assessments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s00530-019-00608-w
Multimedia Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Image fusion, Multi-focus image, Random walk, Guided filter, Weighted averaging
Image fusion,Computer science,Random walk,Algorithm,Image processing,Real-time computing,Multi focus,Smoothing,Initialization
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
4
0942-4962
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhaobin Wang1142.62
Lina Chen223.07
Jian Li316244.60
Ying Zhu482.15