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-scale convolutional neural network for multi-focus image fusion

HT Mustafa, J Yang, M Zareapoor - Image and Vision Computing, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, we present new deep learning (DL) method for fusing multi-focus images.
Current multi-focus image fusion (MFIF) approaches based on DL methods mainly treat …

MFFW: A new dataset for multi-focus image fusion

S Xu, X Wei, C Zhang, J Liu, J Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.04780, 2020 - arxiv.org
Multi-focus image fusion (MFF) is a fundamental task in the field of computational
photography. Current methods have achieved significant performance improvement. It is …

Multilevel features convolutional neural network for multifocus image fusion

Y Yang, Z Nie, S Huang, P Lin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multifocus image fusion is an important technique that aims to generate a single clean
image by fusing multiple input images. In this paper, we propose a novel multilevel features …

A deep model for multi-focus image fusion based on gradients and connected regions

H Xu, F Fan, H Zhang, Z Le, J Huang - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised model for multi-focus image fusion based on
gradients and connected regions, termed as GCF. To overcome the stumbling block of …

UFA-FUSE: A novel deep supervised and hybrid model for multifocus image fusion

Y Zang, D Zhou, C Wang, R Nie… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional and deep learning-based fusion methods generated the intermediate decision
map to obtain the fusion image through a series of postprocessing procedures. However, the …

Pixel convolutional neural network for multi-focus image fusion

H Tang, B Xiao, 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 …

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 …

DRPL: Deep regression pair learning for multi-focus image fusion

J Li, X Guo, G Lu, B Zhang, Y Xu, F Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel deep network is proposed for multi-focus image fusion, named Deep
Regression Pair Learning (DRPL). In contrast to existing deep fusion methods which divide …

Multi-scale visual attention deep convolutional neural network for multi-focus image fusion

R Lai, Y Li, J Guan, A Xiong - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To realize the multi-focus image fusion task, an end-to-end deep convolutional neural
network (DCNN) model that produces the final fused image directly from the source images …