A Novel Region Based Multifocus Image Fusion Method

Abstract

Image fusion is a process of combining multiple input images of the same scene into a single fused image, which preserves relevant information and also retains the important features from each of the original images and makes it more suitable for human and machine perception. In this paper, a novel region based image fusion method is proposed. In literature shows that region based image fusion algorithm performs better than pixel based fusion method. Proposed algorithm is applied on large number of registered images and results are compared using standard reference and no reference based fusion parameters. The proposed method is also compared with different methods reported in the recent literature. The simulation results show that our method performs better than other methods.