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Vol. 33, No. 2 ACTA AUTOMATICA SINICA February, 2007 Perceptual Contrast-Based Image Fusion: A Variational Approach WANG Chao1 YE Zhong-Fu1, 2 Abstract Local contrast, or variation, plays an important role in image fusion which is mainly to preserve the important in- formation from the source images to the fusion result. Weber s law tells us that the same variation under different backgrounds will cause different perceptual feelings, thus an ideal image processor has to take into account the effects of vision psychology and psychophysics. This paper considers the property of human visual system (HVS) and transfers the quantitative perceptual variations from each source image to the result. Using just-noticeable-difference (JND) as measurement, the multiband images perceptual contrast is obtained as a target. We construct a functional extremum problem to find a single band image, or fusion result, which has the closest perceptual contrast to the target one. Via the variational approach, the Euler-Lagrange equation is derived, and a gradient descent iteration is employed. Experimental results show that this method is perceptually good. Key words Image fusion, variational approach, perceptual contrast, Webers law, human visual system (HVS), partial differential equations (PDEs) 1 Introduction The purpose of image fusion is to extract and synthesize information from multiple images in order to produce a more accurate, complete and reliable composite image of the same scene or target, so that the fused image is more suitable for