- Research Article
- 10.22364/bjmc.2025.13.4.10
ColorMEF: A Novel Transformer Based Multi-Exposure Fusion Model
- Jan 01, 2025
- Baltic Journal of Modern Computing
- Matiss Locans + 1 more +1
This research presents a novel multi-exposure fusion model termed ColorMEF.In contrast to conventional approaches that rely primarily on image luminance data, ColorMEF integrates chromatic color information to augment the image fusion process.The incorporation of chromatic information enables ColorMEF to outperform existing models, as substantiated by evaluation metrics such as SSIM, DISTS, and VSI.Furthermore, the model is systematically trained using an end-to-end framework that optimizes the MEF-SSIM function based on the input data.ColorMEF achieves state-of-the-art performance on 4 of 5 conventional full-reference metrics: SSIM 0.9181 (+0.0092 versus the best prior), GMSD 0.0645 (-0.0043, 6.3%), DISTS 0.9266 (+0.0144), and VSI 0.9857 (+0.0025); on VIF ColorMEF is slightly lower (0.5224 vs 0.5394 for IFCNN).On the paper-introduced FSMEF-SSIM metric, ColorMEF ranks second (0.9435 vs 0.9465 for MEF-Net).These results indicate that coupling the chroma and luma during fusion improves structural fidelity and perceived quality across diverse scenes.
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