Multi-focus image fusion: A survey of the state of the art

Y Liu, L Wang, J Cheng, C Li, X Chen - Information Fusion, 2020 - Elsevier
Multi-focus image fusion is an effective technique to extend the depth-of-field of optical
lenses by creating an all-in-focus image from a set of partially focused images of the same …

Deep learning methods for medical image fusion: A review

T Zhou, QR Cheng, HL Lu, Q Li, XX Zhang… - Computers in Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The image fusion methods based on deep learning has become a research hotspot in the
field of computer vision in recent years. This paper reviews these methods from five aspects …

IFCNN: A general image fusion framework based on convolutional neural network

Y Zhang, Y Liu, P Sun, H Yan, X Zhao, L Zhang - Information Fusion, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a general image fusion framework based on the convolutional
neural network, named as IFCNN. Inspired by the transform-domain image fusion …

Deep learning-based multi-focus image fusion: A survey and a comparative study

X Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-focus image fusion (MFIF) is an important area in image processing. Since 2017, deep
learning has been introduced to the field of MFIF and various methods have been proposed …

Multi-focus image fusion with a deep convolutional neural network

Y Liu, X Chen, H Peng, Z Wang - Information Fusion, 2017 - Elsevier
As is well known, activity level measurement and fusion rule are two crucial factors in image
fusion. For most existing fusion methods, either in spatial domain or in a transform domain …

A fusion-based enhancing method for weakly illuminated images

X Fu, D Zeng, Y Huang, Y Liao, X Ding, J Paisley - Signal Processing, 2016 - Elsevier
We propose a straightforward and efficient fusion-based method for enhancing weakly
illumination images that uses several mature image processing techniques. First, we employ …

Multimodal medical image fusion based on joint bilateral filter and local gradient energy

X Li, F Zhou, H Tan, W Zhang, C Zhao - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
As a powerful assistance technique for biomedical diagnosis, multimodal medical image
fusion has emerged as a hot topic in recent years. Unfortunately, the trade-off among fusion …

Sesf-fuse: An unsupervised deep model for multi-focus image fusion

B Ma, Y Zhu, X Yin, X Ban, H Huang… - Neural Computing and …, 2021 - Springer
Muti-focus image fusion is the extraction of focused regions from different images to create
one all-in-focus fused image. The key point is that only objects within the depth-of-field have …

Ensemble of CNN for multi-focus image fusion

M Amin-Naji, A Aghagolzadeh, M Ezoji - Information fusion, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) based multi-focus image fusion
methods have recently attracted enormous attention. They greatly enhanced the constructed …

Pixel convolutional neural network for multi-focus image fusion

H Tang, B **ao, W Li, G Wang - Information Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a pixel-wise convolutional neural network (p-CNN) that can recognize
the focused and defocused pixels in source images from its neighbourhood information for …