PIAO Yong-jie, XU Wei, WANG Shao-ju, TAO Shu-ping. Fast multi-exposure image fusion for HDR video[J]. , 2014,29(6): 1032-1041 DOI: 10.3788/YJYXS20142906.1032.
Fast fusion of multiple low dynamic range(LDR) images is essential for the real-time performance of a high dynamic range(HDR) video acquisition system using multi-exposure method. This paper proposed an improved fusion algorithm based on multi-resolution pyramid decompose. The algorithm dramatically reduces computing complexity while preserving the fusion quality of the original method. The proposed method improves the real-time performance in the following aspects: pyramid decompose convolution core
Gaussian coefficients expansion method
Laplacian coefficients fusion rule
Gaussian coefficients fusion rule. The computing complexity of pyramid decomposes
fusion
and reconstruction is reduced. Experiment results shows that the proposed method is stable and got good fusion results. The method is applied to a launch vehicle observation system. The computing speed is boosted 10 times and it takes 8.9 ms to fuse one 512512 frame on TM320MD642 DSP
fulfilling the real-time requirement of 25 fps HDR video acquisition system.
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