It is sometimes impossible to obtain a single image of a scene where all areas appear well-exposed. Some
scene areas may appear under-exposed or over-exposed in a single shot. Each local area in a scene may
require a different shutter speed to best capture its details. A multi-exposure image fusion software developed
by Image Registration and Fusion Systems combines two or more images of a scene captured at different
shutter speeds into a single image where all scene areas appear well exposed. An example is given below.
(a) - (e) Five images of an office scene obtained at different exposure levels. (f) The image obtained by fusing the given images.
About 5 seconds processing time was needed to fuse the images on a Windows PC with a 2.2 GHz processor. If an area is
under or over exposed in all images, that area will also appear under or over exposed in the fused image.
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Multi-exposure image fusion
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The interface to the software is shown below. After selecting the input images by a file selection menu, the
software fuses the images and shows it side-by-side with the original images. The fused image is shown in the
right window, while one of the input images is shown in the left window. The user can view the input images
interactively and compare each with the fused image. The fused image can be saved in jpg or other popular
formats.