A composite objective metric and its application to multi-focus image fusion

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• 作者：Weitong Li^a ; ^{lwt1969@163.com} ; Ruijie Song^b ; ^{srj1969@163.com}
• 关键词：Performance evaluation ; BPA ; Conflict ; Multi-focus image
• 刊名：AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：71
• 期：Complete
• 页码：125-130
• 全文大小：778 K
• 卷排序：71

文摘

The research is motivated by the conclusion that single metric can’t give the best assessment in all situations. In this paper, a new method for objective no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) with multi-metric combination (MMC) is presented, and has four characteristics: 1) It is a NR assessment applicable for arbitrary multi-focus images; 2) The metric-selection based on segmentation consistency is effective to process various multi-focus images. 3) The linear and nonlinear conversion functions are constructed respectively to transform each pair of selected metrics into a set of basic probability assignment (BPA). 4) D-S evidence theory is introduced to exploit the advantage of performance evaluation and explore a resolution to the conflicting circumstance. Experiments conducted with five sets of multi-focus images confirm the effectiveness and robustness of our metric in contrast with single metric.