Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 51, Issue 11, 1110001(2022)
High Dynamic Range Image Fusion Algorithm Based on Local Weighted Superposition
Aiming at the limitation of the dynamic range of the imaging sensor, the size of the local window and the fusion image method is further studied, and the multi-exposure image fusion method based on the camera response curve is improved. By changing the exposure time, a set of images with different exposure degrees is obtained, and image fusion is performed on the high-brightness image and the low-brightness image. Firstly, the conversion factor is directly calculated based on the image pixel value, which simplifies the calculation of the pixel ratio factor curve of the High Exposure (HE) image and Low Exposure (LE) image, and avoids the solution of the camera response curve. The pixel values in the low-brightness image are mapped to the pixel value range of the high-brightness image through the ratio factor, and then the image is subjected to local windowing processing. There are three cases of overexposure and good overexposure. For different exposure situations, according to the saturation of the neighborhood pixels in the highlighted image window, different weight coefficients are determined for multi-exposure weighted fusion, which is roughly divided into three steps:1) Select the unsaturated pixel value of the HE image and the corresponding pixel value in the LE image to linearly fit to obtain the pixel ratio factor curve.2) After adding local windows to the HE image, determine the saturation of the pixel values in each window. Whether the center pixel value of the highlighted image is saturated and whether the neighborhood pixel values of the center value are all saturated, the exposure of the center pixel value is determined. The situations are divided into three categories, 1) Good exposure: the central pixel value is not saturated, and all the neighborhood pixel value sets are not saturated; 2) Incomplete overexposure: the central pixel value is not saturated, the neighborhood pixel value set is not completely saturated or the central pixel When the value is saturated, at least one of the neighboring pixel value sets is saturated; 3) Complete overexposure: the center pixel value is saturated, and the neighborhood pixel value set is also saturated.3) According to the saturation situation, determine the weight coefficient of each pixel value fusion of the HE and the LE images. The weight coefficient is determined by the proportion of unsaturated pixel values in the neighborhood pixel value set in the HE image, and the final HDR image is obtained by weighted fusion.In terms of experimental verification, two typical multi-exposure fusion test sets of Bottle and Airport are selected to select the size of the local window and the imaging effect in a low signal-to-noise ratio environment. The wavelet transform fusion method and the window fusion method in this paper are compared horizontally. The experimental results show that:(1) With the increase of the selected window, the more pixels involved in the calculation, the influence of the over-bright central pixel value in the scene in the fusion process gradually decreases, the overall brightness decreases, and the quality of the fused image is more vulnerable. However, if the selection window is too small, the estimation accuracy of the saturated pixel value of the neighboring pixels will decrease. Therefore, in the selection of the window size, the influence of local noise on the quality of the fused image and the constraining ability of the neighboring pixels to the highlighted center pixel value should be considered at the same time. In order to achieve a better fusion effect, the algorithm in this paper selects the
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Lulu GUO, Hongwei YI. High Dynamic Range Image Fusion Algorithm Based on Local Weighted Superposition[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(11): 1110001
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Received: Apr. 14, 2022
Accepted: Apr. 21, 2022
Published Online: Dec. 13, 2022
The Author Email: YI Hongwei (Yihongwei@opt.ac.cn)