Abstract
Existing multiscale exposure fusion (MEF) algorithms cannot preserve relative brightness in an image fused from two large-exposure-ratio images if high-light regions in the dark image are darker than shadow regions in the bright image. In this letter, a strategy by synthesizing a virtual image with a medium exposure is presented to brighten the high-light regions in the dark image and to darken the darkest regions in the bright image. The virtual image is generated via intensity mapping functions. In order to avoid possible color distortion in the virtual image due to one-to-many mapping, two intermediate virtual images with the same exposure time are generated by the two input images, and then merged together to produce the desired virtual image using properly defined weights. The final image is obtained by fusing the original two input images and the virtual image via a state-of-the-art MEF algorithm. Experimental results show that the relative brightness is preserved much better and the MEF-SSIM is significantly improved by the proposed algorithm.
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