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1 Multi-focus image fusion based on cartoon-texture image

2 decomposition
3 Q1 Yongxin Zhang a,b , Li Chen a,∗ , Zhihua Zhao a , Jian Jia c
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4 School of Information Science and Technology, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
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5 School of Information Technology, Luoyang Normal University, Luoyang 471022, China
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6 Department of Mathematics, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
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20 a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
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10 Article history: In order to represent the source images effectively and completely, a multi-component fusion approach
11 Received 2 January 2015 is proposed for multi-focus image fusion. The registered source images are decomposed into cartoon and
12 Accepted 12 October 2015 texture components by using cartoon-texture image decomposition. The significant features are selected
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from the cartoon and texture components, respectively to form a composite feature space. The local
14 features that represent the salient information of the source images are integrated to construct the fused
15 Keywords:
image. Experimental results demonstrate the proposed approach works better in extracting the focused
16 Image fusion
regions and improving the fusion quality compared to the other existing fusion methods in both spatial
17 Split bregman algorithm
18 Total variation
and transform domain.
19 Multi-component fusion
© 2015 Published by Elsevier GmbH.

21 1. Introduction to noise and is subject to incorrect selection of blocks from the cor- 43

responding source images. Or else, if the size of blocks is too large, 44

22 Multi-focus image fusion can be defined as a process of combing the in-focus and out-of-focus pixels are partitioned in the same 45

23 substantial information from multiple images of the same scene block, which are selected to build the final fused image. Accord- 46

24 to create a single composite image that will be more suitable for ingly, the blocking artifacts are produced and may compromise the 47

25 human visual perception or further computer processing [1]. It has quality of the final fused image. To eliminate the blocking artifacts, 48

26 been proven to be an effective way to extend the depth of the researchers have proposed some improved schemes. Li et al. [5,6] 49

27 field. In general, the fusion methods can be categorized into two have selected the focused blocks by using learning based meth- 50

28 groups: spatial domain fusion and transform domain fusion [2]. In ods, such as artificial neural networks (ANN) and support vector 51

29 this paper, we concentrate on the spatial domain methods. machine (SVM). Due to the difficulty in obtaining empirical data 52

30 The spatial domain methods are easy to implement and have in most multi-focus image fusion cases, the learning based meth- 53

31 low computational complexity. The spatial domain fusion methods ods are not widely used. Fedorov et al. [7] have selected the best 54

32 can be divided into two categories: pixel based methods and region focus by titling source images with overlapping neighbourhoods 55

33 based methods. The simplest pixel based fusion method is to take and improved the visual quality of the fused image. But this method 56

34 the average of the source images pixel by pixel. However, the sim- is afflicted by temporal and geometric distortions between images. 57

35 plicity may reduce the contrast of the fused image. To improve the Aslantas et al. [8] have selected the optimal block-size by using 58

36 quality of fused image, some region based methods have been pro- differential evolution algorithm and enhanced the self-adaptation 59

37 posed to combine partitioned blocks or segmented regions based on of the fusion method. But this method requires longer computa- 60

38 their sharpness [3]. The sharpness is measured by using local spatial tional time. Wu et al. [9] have selected the focused patches from 61

39 features [4], such as energy of image gradient (EOG) and spatial fre- the source images by using a belief propagation algorithm. But 62

40 quency (SF). Then, the focused blocks or regions are selected from the algorithm is complicated and time-consuming. Goshtasby et al. 63

41 source images by simply copying them into the fused image. How- [10] have detected the focused blocks by computing the weight 64

42 ever, if the size of blocks is too small, the block selection is sensitive sum of the blocks. The iterative procedure is time-consuming. De 65

et al. [11] have determined the optimal block-size by using quad 66

tree structure and effectively solved the problem of determin- 67

∗ Corresponding author. Tel.: +86 18637930027. ing of block-size. These schemes all achieve better performance 68

E-mail addresses: tabo126@126.com (Y. Zhang), chenli@nwu.edu.cn (L. Chen), than the traditional methods and significantly inhibit the blocking 69

jiajian@nwu.edu.cn (J. Jia). artifacts. 70

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71 In order to effectively and completely represent the source

72 images, a novel fusion method based on cartoon-texture image
73 decomposition is proposed. Cartoon-texture image decomposi-
74 tion is an important way of image processing, which has been
75 widely used in image analysis and vision applications, such as
76 enhancement, inpainting, segmentation, texture and shape anal-
77 ysis [12]. Cartoon-texture image decomposition separates a given
78 image into cartoon and texture components. The cartoon compo-
79 nent holds the geometric structures, isophotes and smooth-piece of
80 the source images, while the texture component contains textures,
81 oscillating patterns, fine details and noise [13]. The cartoon and
82 texture components represent the most meaningful information of
83 the source images, which is important for image fusion. Cartoon-
84 texture image decomposition has been proven to be an effective
85 way to extract the structure information and texture information
86 from image [14]. The objective of this paper is to investigate the
87 potential application of cartoon-texture image decomposition in
88 the multi-focus image fusion. The main contribution of this paper Fig. 1. Cartoon-texture decomposition results of multi-focus image ‘Clock’ using
89 is that a multi-component fusion framework is established. The image decomposition: (a) source images I. (b) cartoon component U and (c) texture
90 framework is based on the discriminative features that computed component V .

91 from the cartoon and texture components of the source images.

92 The focused regions are detected by computing the salient feature Split Bregman algorithm by combining the split method [24] with 131

93 of the neighbourhood region of each pixel in the cartoon and tex- Bregman iteration [25]. This algorithm is easy to implement and 132

94 ture components. The proposed method works well in inhibiting has low computational complexity. This paper performs cartoon- 133

95 the blocking artifacts and representing the source images. texture image decomposition based on ROF model by using Split 134

96 The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, the Bregman algorithm. 135

97 basic idea of cartoon-texture image decomposition will be briefly Fig. 1(b and c) shows the cartoon-texture image decomposition 136

98 described, followed by the new method based on cartoon-texture results of source images ‘Clock’. It is obvious that the salient features 137

99 image decomposition for image fusion in Section 3. In Section 4, of the cartoon and texture components are corresponding to the 138

100 extensive simulations are performed to evaluate the performance local feature of objects in focus. Thus, the cartoon and texture com- 139

101 of the proposed method. In addition, several experimental results ponents can be useful to build a robust fusion scheme to accurately 140

102 are presented and discussed. Finally, concluding remarks are drawn discriminate the focused regions from defocused regions. In this 141

103 in Section 5. paper, the salient features of the cartoon and texture components 142

are used to detect the focused regions. 143

104 2. Cartoon-texture image decomposition

3. Fusion method based on cartoon-texture image 144

105 Nowadays, in many problems of image analysis [15], an decomposition 145

106 observed image f represents a real scene. The image f may contain
107 texture or noise. In order to extract the most meaningful infor- 3.1. Fusion algorithm 146

108 mation from f , most models [16–25] try to find another image u,
109 “close” to f , such that u is a cartoon or simplification of f . These In this Section, a novel method based on image decomposition is 147

110 models assume that the following relation between f and u: proposed. The source images must be initially decomposed into car- 148

toon and texture components, respectively. Then, both components 149

111 f =u+v (1)
are integrated according to certain fusion rules, respectively. The 150

112 where v is noise or texture. proposed fusion framework is depicted in Fig. 2 and the detailed 151

113 In 1989, Mumford et al. [16] have established a model to decom- design is described as follows. For simplicity, this paper assumes 152

114 pose the black and white static image by using bounded variation that there are only two source images, namely I A and IB , here. The 153

115 function. In 1992, Rudin et al. [17] have simplified the Mum- rationale behind the proposed scheme applies to the fusion of more 154

116 ford–Shah model and proposed total variation minimization energy than two multi-focus images. The source images are assumed to 155

Q2 functional model of Rudin–Osher–Fatemi (ROF) as:

117 pre-registered and the image registration is not included in the 156
   framework. The fusion algorithm consists of the following 3 steps: 157

118 EROF (u) = (||∇ u||dxdy) +  (u − u0 )2 dxdy (2) Step 1: Perform cartoon-texture image decomposition on the 158

R source images I A , IB to obtain cartoon and texture components, 159

R
respectively. For the source image I A , let UA , VA denote the cartoon 160

119 The ROF model is very efficient for de-noising images while and texture components, respectively. For the source image I B , UB , 161

120 keeping sharp edges. However, the ROF model will remove the VB have the roles similar to U A and VA . Moreover, the color source 162

121 texture when  is small enough [18]. In 2002, Vese et al. [19]
122 have developed a partial differential equation (PDE) based iterative
123 numerical algorithm to approximate Meyer’s weaker norm || · ||G by
124 using Lp . However, this model is time consuming. To improve the
125 computation efficiency, many models and methods have been pro-
126 posed. They proposed Osher–Sole–Vese (OSV) [20] model based on
127 total variation (TV) and norm H −1 . Aujol et al. [21] have introduced
128 dual norm to image decomposition. Chana et al. [22] have pro-
129 posed CEP − H −1 model based on OSV. However, these methods
130 are still complicated. In 2008, Goldstein et al. [23] have proposed Fig. 2. Block diagram of proposed multi-focus images fusion framework.

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163 image can be processed as a single matrix made up of three indi- region of the pixel location (i, j) in UA , UB , VA and VB are, respec- 200

164 vidual source images. For a color image, the cartoon and texture tively, compared to determine which pixel is likely to belong to the 201

165 components can be defined as: focused regions. Two decision matrices H U and H V are constructed 202

  for recording the comparison results according to the selection 203

166 Ic = U c + V c , c ∈ R band, G band, B band (3) rules as follows: 204

167 where c denotes the index of the image color band.

 UA UB
1, EOG(i,j) ≥ EOG(i,j)
168 Step 2: According to the fusion rules, U A and UB are integrated to H U (i, j) = (5) 205
169 obtain U which denotes the cartoon component of the fused image. 0, otherwise
170 Similarly, V A and VB are combined to form V which denotes the  V V
171 texture component of the fused image. A
1, EOG(i,j) ≥ EOG(i,j)
B
V
172 Step 3: U and V are superposed to form the fused image F. H (i, j) = (6) 206
0, otherwise

173 3.2. Fusion rule

where “1” in H U indicates the pixel location (i, j) in image UA is 207

in focus while “0” in H U indicates the pixel location (i, j) in image 208
174 There are two key issues [13] for the fusion rules. One is how to
UB is in focus. Likewise, the “1” in H V indicates the pixel location 209
175 measure the activity level of the cartoon and texture components,
(i, j) in image VA is in focus while “0” in H V indicates the pixel loca- 210
176 respectively, which recognizes the sharpness of the source images.
tion (i, j) in image VB is in focus. However, judging by EOG alone 211
177 Fig. 3(a–d) show the relationship between multi-component of
is not sufficient to distinguish all the focused pixels. There are thin 212
178 the source images ‘Clock’ and their 3D shapes. It is obvious that
protrusions, narrow breaks, thin gulfs, small holes, etc. in H U and 213
179 the salient protruding portions of the 3D shape of the multi-
H V . To overcome these disadvantages, morphological operations 214
180 component are corresponding to the salient regions of the cartoon
[26] are performed on H U and H V . Opening, denoted as H U ◦ Z and 215
181 and texture components, and the salient regions of the cartoon and
H V ◦ Z, is simply erosion of H U and H V by the structure element Z, 216
182 texture components are corresponding to the focused regions of
followed by dilation of the result by Z. This process can remove thin 217
183 the source images. Thus, we use the EOG of the pixels within a
gulfs and thin protrusions. Closing, denoted as H U • Z and H V • Z, 218
184 M × N (M = 2s + 1, N = 2t + 1) window of the cartoon and texture
is dilation followed by erosion. It can join narrow breaks and thin 219
185 components to measure the activity level, respectively. s and t are
gulfs. To correctly judge the small holes, a threshold is set to remove 220
186 all positive integers. The EOG is calculated as:
the holes smaller than the threshold. Thus, the final fused cartoon
⎧
221

⎪ and texture components are constructed according to the rules as

⎪
(M−1)/2

(N−1)/2

2 
222
⎪
⎪ 2 follows:
⎨ EOG(i, j) = Ii+m + Ij+n 223

187 m=−(M−1)/2n=−(N−1)/2 (4) UA (i, j), H U (i, j) =1
⎪
⎪ Ii+m = I(i + m + 1, j) − I(i + m, j) U(i, j) =
⎪
⎪
(7) 224
⎩ UB (i, j), H U (i, j) = 0
Ij+n = I(i, j + n + 1) − I(i, j + n)

188 where I(i, j) indicates the value of the pixel location (i, j) in the VA (i, j), H V (i, j) = 1
V (i, j) = (8)
cartoon or texture components. The window is set as 5 × 5 and the
225
189
VB (i, j), H V (i, j) = 0
190 detailed size can be set based on the experimental results.
191 The other is how to integrate the focused pixels or regions from
192 the cartoon and texture components into the counterparts of the 4. Experimental results and discussion 226

193 fused image. In order to eliminate the blocking artifacts, a sliding

194 window technique is applied to the cartoon and texture compo- In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, 227

195 nents. Let EOGU A UB

(i,j) and EOG(i,j) denote the EOG of all the pixels several experiments are performed on four pairs of multi-focus 228

196 within the sliding windows which cover the neighbourhood region source images as shown in Fig. 4. The upper two pairs are grayscale 229

197 of the pixel location (i, j) in UA and UB , respectively. The EOGV(i,j)

A images with size of 640 × 380 pixels. The rest are color images with 230

198 and EOGV(i,j)

B have the roles similar to EOGUA and EOGUB for the
(i,j) (i,j) size of 512 × 384 pixels and 640 × 380 pixels, respectively. In gen- 231

199 pixel location (i, j) in VA and VB . The EOG of the neighbourhood eral, image registration should be performed before image fusion. 232

Fig. 3. The relationship between multi-component of the source images ‘Clock’ and their 3D shapes: (a) cartoon component of the far focused image, (b) cartoon component
of the near focused image, (c) texture component of the far focused image and (d) texture component of the near focused image.

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Fig. 4. Multi-focus source images: (a) near focused image ‘Disk’, (b) far focused image ‘Disk’, (c) near focused image ‘Lab’, (d) far focused image ‘Lab’, (e) far focused image
‘Rose’, (f) near focused image ‘Rose’, (g) far focused image ‘Book’ and (h) near focused image ‘Book’.

233 Experiments are conducted with Matlab R2011b in Windows envi-

234 ronment on a computer with Intel Xeon X5570 and 48G memory.
235 For comparison, besides the proposed method, some existing
236 multi-focus image fusion methods are also implemented on the
237 same set of source images [27,28]. These methods are laplacian
238 pyramid (LAP), discrete wavelet transform (DWT), nonsubsumpled
239 contourlet transform (NSCT), principal component analysis (PCA),
240 SF (Li’s method [3]). Due to the lack of original source codes, this
241 paper uses the Eduardo Fernandez Canga’s Matlab image fusion
242 toolbox [29] as a reference (LAP, DWT, PCA, SF). Specifically, the
243 Daubechies wavelet function ‘bi97 is used in the DWT. The decom-
244 position level of DWT and LAP is 4. The NSCT toolbox [30] is used
245 as the reference for NSCT. The pyramid filter ‘9-7 and the orien-
246 tation filter ‘7-9 with {4, 4, 3} levels of decomposition are set for
247 the fusion method based on NSCT. The Split Bregman toolbox [31] Fig. 6. The fused images ‘Lab’ obtained by LAP (a), DWT (b), NSCT (c), PCA (d), SF (e)
248 is used as the reference for the proposed method. and proposed (f).
249 In order to quantitatively compare the performance of pro-
250 posed method and that of the other methods mentioned above,
251 two metrics are used to evaluate the fusion performance. The two
252 metrics are: (i) Mutual information (MI) [32] reveal the degree of
253 dependence of the source images and the fused image. (ii) Q AB/F
254 [33] reflects the amount of edge information transferred from the
255 source images to the fused image. A larger value for them means a
256 better fusion result.

257 4.1. Comparison results on grayscale images

258 For visual evaluation, the fused images ‘Disk’ and ‘Lab’ obtained
259 by different fusion methods are shown in Figs. 5(a–f) and 6(a–f).
260 The difference between the fused images and their corresponding
261 far focused source image for ‘Lab’ are shown in Fig. 7(a–f). The fused
262 images obtained by the other fusion methods demonstrate obvious
Fig. 7. The difference images between right focused source image ‘Lab’ and corre-
sponding fused images obtained by LAP (a), DWT (b), NSCT (c), PCA (d), SF (e) and
proposed (f).

blurs and artifacts, such as the blurry regions of the white book in 263

Fig. 5(a–d), and the upper edge of the student’s head in Fig. 6(a–d). 264

Blocking artifacts appear in the fused images obtained by SF, such 265

as the upper edge of the clock in Fig. 5(e), and the upper edge of the 266

student’s head in Fig. 6(e). The contrast of the fused image obtained 267

by PCA is worst, and the contrast of the fused image obtained by 268

the proposed method is best. There are obvious residuals in the 269

difference images obtained by LAP, DWT, NSCT, PCA and SF. There 270

are distortions in the difference images in Fig. 7(a–c). There are a 271

few residuals in the left regions of Fig. 7(d and e). Thus, the fused 272

image of proposed method achieves superior visual performance by 273

Fig. 5. The fused images ‘Disk’ obtained by LAP (a), DWT (b), NSCT (c), PCA (d), SF containing all the focused contents from the source images without 274

(e) and proposed (f). introducing artifacts. 275

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Table 1 Table 2
The performance of different fusion methods for grayscale multi-focus images ‘Disk’ The performance of different fusion methods for color multi-focus images ‘Rose’ and
and ‘Lab’. ‘Book’.

Method Disk Lab Method Rose Book

MI Q AB/F Run-time(s) MI Q AB/F Run-time(s) MI Q AB/F Run-time(s) MI Q AB/F Run-time(s)

LAP 6.14 0.69 0.91 7.10 0.71 0.91 LAP 5.75 0.69 2.32 6.94 0.71 3.12
DWT 5.36 0.64 0.64 6.47 0.69 0.59 DWT 5.07 0.66 1.01 6.42 0.69 1.57
NSCT 5.88 0.67 463.19 6.95 0.71 468.51 NSCT 5.33 0.69 222.86 6.51 0.69 366.40
PCA 6.02 0.53 0.32 7.12 0.59 0.08 PCA 5.73 0.70 0.04 7.16 0.62 0.14
SF 7.00 0.68 1.01 7.94 0.72 1.03 SF 7.15 0.72 1.90 7.71 0.70 3.10
Proposed 7.25 0.72 21.08 8.20 0.75 17.09 Proposed 7.30 0.73 42.14 7.87 0.73 66.82

276 For quantitative comparison, the quantitative results on as the right edge of the door frame in Fig. 8(e) and the cover of 293
277 grayscale multi-focus images in two quality measures and the run- the left book in Fig. 9(e). In addition, a blurry edge between the two 294
278 ning time are also shown in Table 1. The proposed method gains books appears in Fig. 9(e). The contrast of the fused images obtained 295
279 higher MI and Q AB/F values than the other methods. One can see by PCA is worst, such as the rose flower in Fig. 8(d) and the cover of 296
280 that the running time of the proposed method is larger than that the left book in Fig. 9(d). The contrast of the fused images obtained 297
281 of the other methods except for NSCT. Due to the sliding window by the proposed fusion method is better than other fusion methods. 298
282 technique is applied for the detection of focused regions, the com- Thus, the fused image of proposed method achieves better quali- 299
283 putation of EOG of all pixels of each sliding window in the proposed tative performance by integrating all the focused regions from the 300
284 method requires longer computational time. source images without introducing artifacts. 301

For quantitative comparison, the quantitative results on color 302

285 4.2. Comparison results on color images multi-focus images in two quality measures are shown in Table 2. 303

The proposed method gains higher MI and Q AB/F values than the 304

286 For visual evaluation, the fused images ‘Rose’ and ‘Book’ other methods. The computational time are also shown in Table 2. 305

287 obtained by different fusion methods are shown in Figs. 8(a–f) and Again, the proposed method needs longer running time than the 306

288 9(a–f). other methods except for NSCT. The drawback of the high compu- 307

289 The fused images obtained by LAP, DWT and NSCT demonstrate tation complexity lies in that the sliding widow searches the entire 308

290 obvious blurs and artifacts, such as the upper edge of the rose flower image to compute the EOG of all the pixels within the window, 309

291 in Fig. 8(a–c) and the right corner of the left book in Fig. 9(a–c). which inefficient coded using a loop structure in matlab. 310

292 Blocking arifacts appear in the fused images obtained by SF, such
5. Conclusion and future work 311

This paper proposes a novel multi-focus image fusion method 312

based on cartoon-texture image decomposition. The salient fea- 313

tures computed from the cartoon and texture components are 314

able to represent the salient information from the source images. 315

The experiments were performed on various pairs of grayscale 316

and color images. The qualitative and quantitative evaluation have 317

demonstrated that the proposed method achieves superior fusion 318

results compared to some existing fusion methods and signifi- 319

cantly improves the quality of the fused image. In the future, we 320

will consider optimizing the proposed method to reduce the time- 321

consuming. 322

Acknowledgements 323
Fig. 8. The fused image ‘Rose’ obtained by LAP (a), DWT (b), NSCT (c), PCA (d), SF
(e), proposed (f). The work was supported by National Key Technology Science Q3 324

and Technique Support Program (No. 2013BAH49F03), National 325

Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61379010), Key Technolo- 326

gies R&D Program of Henan Province (No. 132102210515), Natural 327

Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (Program Q4 328

No. 2012JQ1012). 329

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