Image Fusion With Cosparse Analysis Operator

Abstract

The paper addresses the image fusion problem, where multiple images captured with different focus distances are to be combined into a higher quality all-in-focus image. Most current approaches for image fusion strongly rely on the unrealistic noise-free assumption used during the image acquisition, and then yield limited robustness in fusion processing. In our approach, we formulate the multi-focus image fusion problem in terms of an analysis sparse model, and simultaneously perform the restoration and fusion of multi-focus images. Based on this model, we propose an analysis operator learning, and define a novel fusion function to generate an all-in-focus image. Experimental evaluations confirm the effectiveness of the proposed fusion approach both visually and quantitatively, and show that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art fusion methods.

12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, Submitted to IEEE Signal Processing Letters on December 2016

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