Exposure Fusion Using Boosting Laplacian Pyramid
- 22 November 2013
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
- Vol. 44 (9), 1579-1590
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tcyb.2013.2290435
Abstract
This paper proposes a new exposure fusion approach for producing a high quality image result from multiple exposure images. Based on the local weight and global weight by considering the exposure quality measurement between different exposure images, and the just noticeable distortion-based saliency weight, a novel hybrid exposure weight measurement is developed. This new hybrid weight is guided not only by a single image's exposure level but also by the relative exposure level between different exposure images. The core of the approach is our novel boosting Laplacian pyramid, which is based on the structure of boosting the detail and base signal, respectively, and the boosting process is guided by the proposed exposure weight. Our approach can effectively blend the multiple exposure images for static scenes while preserving both color appearance and texture structure. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach successfully produces visually pleasing exposure fusion images with better color appearance and more texture details than the existing exposure fusion techniques and tone mapping operators.Keywords
Funding Information
- Key Program of NSFC-Guangdong Union Foundation (U1035004)
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (2013CB328805)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61272359, 91120302, 61125106)
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-11-0789)
- Shaanxi Key Innovation Team of Science and Technology (2012KCT-04)
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