Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 46, Issue 1, 180084(2019)

Multi-exposure image fusion based on tensor decomposition and convolution sparse representation

Qi Yubin1, Yu Mei1,2、*, Jiang Hao1,3, Shao Hua1, and Jiang Gangyi1,2
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    In view of the problem about the loss of detail and color distortion in multi-exposure image fusion, this paper proposed a multi-exposure image fusion method based on tensor decomposition and convolution sparse representation. Tensor decomposition, as an approach of low-rank approximation for high-dimensional data, has great potential in feature extraction of multi-exposure images. Convolution sparse representation is a sparse optimization method for the whole image, which can preserve the detail information of the image to the greatest extent. At the same time, in order to avoid color distortion in the fused image, this paper adopted the method of separately fusing luminance and chrominance. Firstly, the core tensor of the source image was obtained by tensor decomposition. Besides, edge features were extracted on the first sub-band which contains the most information. Then the edge feature map was sparsely decomposed to obtain the activity level of each pixel by using L1 norm of the decomposition coefficient. Finally, take "winner-take-all" strategy to generate weight map so as to obtain the fused luminance components. Unlike the process of luminance fusion, chrominance components were fused by simple Gaussian weighting method, which solves the color distortion problem for the fused image to a certain extent. The experimental results show that the proposed method has great detail preservation ability.

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    Qi Yubin, Yu Mei, Jiang Hao, Shao Hua, Jiang Gangyi. Multi-exposure image fusion based on tensor decomposition and convolution sparse representation[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2019, 46(1): 180084

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    Category: Article

    Received: Apr. 14, 2018

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jan. 18, 2019

    The Author Email: Mei Yu (yumei@nbu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.12086/oee.2019.180084

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