International Journal of Engineering Research in Electronics and Communication Engineering

An Algorithm to Perform Fusion of Partially Focused Images in Fuzzy Domain

Author : Meenu Manchanda ¹

Date of Publication :17th May 2018

Abstract: An algorithm for fusion of partially focused input images in fuzzy domain is proposed. Since fuzzy transform possesses important properties such as shift-invariance, ability to preserve edges in an image, ability to provide better approximation etc. and therefore has been preferred in the paper. Since important features in an image are generally larger than one pixel and therefore the proposed algorithm uses fusion rule based on more than one coefficient (i.e. window based fusion rule) to fuse input images in the fuzzy transform domain. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm is effective and the results are acceptable

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