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 for pixel-level image fusion: Recent advances and future prospects

Y Liu, X Chen, Z Wang, ZJ Wang, RK Ward, X Wang - Information fusion, 2018 - Elsevier
By integrating the information contained in multiple images of the same scene into one
composite image, pixel-level image fusion is recognized as having high significance in a …

SDNet: A versatile squeeze-and-decomposition network for real-time image fusion

H Zhang, J Ma - International Journal of Computer Vision, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, a squeeze-and-decomposition network (SDNet) is proposed to realize multi-
modal and digital photography image fusion in real time. Firstly, we generally transform …

DDcGAN: A dual-discriminator conditional generative adversarial network for multi-resolution image fusion

J Ma, H Xu, J Jiang, X Mei… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we proposed a new end-to-end model, termed as dual-discriminator
conditional generative adversarial network (DDcGAN), for fusing infrared and visible images …

Rethinking the image fusion: A fast unified image fusion network based on proportional maintenance of gradient and intensity

H Zhang, H Xu, Y Xiao, X Guo, J Ma - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2020 - ojs.aaai.org
In this paper, we propose a fast unified image fusion network based on proportional
maintenance of gradient and intensity (PMGI), which can end-to-end realize a variety of …

Infrared and visible image fusion methods and applications: A survey

J Ma, Y Ma, C Li - Information fusion, 2019 - Elsevier
Infrared images can distinguish targets from their backgrounds based on the radiation
difference, which works well in all-weather and all-day/night conditions. By contrast, visible …

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 …

Image fusion with convolutional sparse representation

Y Liu, X Chen, RK Ward… - IEEE signal processing …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a popular signal modeling technique, sparse representation (SR) has achieved great
success in image fusion over the last few years with a number of effective algorithms being …

A phase congruency and local Laplacian energy based multi-modality medical image fusion method in NSCT domain

Z Zhu, M Zheng, G Qi, D Wang, Y Xiang - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-modality image fusion provides more comprehensive and sophisticated information in
modern medical diagnosis, remote sensing, video surveillance, and so on. This paper …