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Laplacian Pyramid Blending is a commonly used method for several seamless image blending tasks. While the method works well for images with comparable intensity levels, it is often unable to produce artifact free images for applications which handle images with large intensity variation such as exposure fusion. This paper proposes a spatially varying Laplacian Pyramid Blending to blend images with large intensity differences. The proposed method dynamically alters the blending levels during the final stage of Pyramid Reconstruction based on the amount of local intensity variation. The proposed algorithm out performs state-of-the-art methods for image blending both qualitatively as well as quantitatively on publicly available High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging dataset. Qualitative improvements are demonstrated in terms of details, halos and dark halos. For quantitative comparison, the no-reference perceptual metric MEF-SSIM was used.
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Biswas, A., Green Rosh, K.S., Lomte, S.D. (2020). Spatially Variant Laplacian Pyramids for Multi-frame Exposure Fusion. In: Nain, N., Vipparthi, S., Raman, B. (eds) Computer Vision and Image Processing. CVIP 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1147. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4015-8_7
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