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The concentration of the cones and ganglion cells is much higher in the fovea than the rest of the retina. This non-uniform sampling results in a retinal image that is sharp at the fixation point, where a person is looking, and blurred away from it. This difference between the sampling rates at the different spatial locations presents us with the question of whether we can employ this biological characteristic to achieve better image compression. This can be achieved by compressing an image less at the fixation point and more away from it. It is, however, known that the vision system employs more that one fixation to look at a single scene which presents us with the problem of combining images pertaining to the same scene but exhibiting different spatial contrasts. This article presents an algorithm to combine such a series of images by using image fusion in the gradient domain. The advantage of the algorithm is that unlike other algorithms that compress the image in the spatial domain our algorithm results in no artifacts. The algorithm is based on two steps, in the first we modify the gradients of an image based on a limited number of fixations and in the second we integrate the modified gradient. Results based on measured and predicted fixations verify our approach.
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Alsam, A., Rivertz, H.J., Sharma, P. (2012). What the Eye Did Not See – A Fusion Approach to Image Coding. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7432. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33191-6_20
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