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A new method is proposed for fusing a multi-exposure sequence of images into a high quality image based on the locality properties of the sequence. We divide the images into uniform blocks and use variance to represent the information of blocks. The richest information (RI) image is computed by piecing together blocks with largest variances. We assume that images in the sequence are high dimensional data points lying on the same neighbourhood and borrow the idea from locally linear embedding (LLE) to fuse a result image which is closest to the RI image. The result is comparable to the state-of-art tone mapping operators and other exposure fusion methods.
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Bai, Y. et al. (2014). A Multi-exposure Fusion Method Based on Locality Properties. In: Ooi, W.T., Snoek, C.G.M., Tan, H.K., Ho, CK., Huet, B., Ngo, CW. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing – PCM 2014. PCM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8879. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13168-9_37
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