Utilizing the contourlet's advantages of multiscale
localization
directionality and anisotropy
a multifocus image fusion algorithm based on region statistics in contourlet domain is developed. Source images are firstly decomposed to the domain of the contourlet transform
the image fusion is then implemented in subbands with different scale and direction combining with region statistics. Regional variance and local energy are adopted as fusion rules in lowpass and highpass subbands
respectively. Finally the fused image is obtained through inverse transform. Experimental results show that the proposed method can detect image features more effectively and the fused image has better subjective visual effect. Compared to traditional gradient pyramid algorithm and wavelet based algorithm
the maximum of mean square error of the proposed algorithm is only 34.8% and 42.6% of the formers
respectively.
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