@conference {quan2024multifocus,
	title = {Multi-Focus Image Fusion via Explicit Defocus Blur Modelling},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
	year = {2025},
	month = {aug},
	abstract = {Multi-focus image fusion (MFIF) is a critical technique for enhancing depth of field in photography, producing an all-in-focus image from multiple images captured at different focal lengths. While deep learning has shown promise in MFIF, most existing methods ignore the physical model of defocus blurring in their neural architecture design, limiting their interoperability and generalization. This paper presents a novel framework that integrates explicit defocus blur modeling into the MFIF process, leading to enhanced interpretability and performance. Leveraging an atom-based spatially-varying parameterized defocus blurring model, our approach first calculates pixel-wise defocus descriptors and initial focused images from multi-focus source images through a scale-recurrent fashion, based on which soft decision maps are estimated. Afterward, image fusion is performed using masks constructed from the decision maps, with a separate treatment on pixels that are probably defocused in all source images or near boundaries of defocused/focused regions. Model training is done with a fusion loss and a cross-scale defocus estimation loss. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets have demonstrated the effectiveness of our approach.},
	author = {Quan, Yuhui and Wan, Xi and Tang, Zitao and Liang, Jinxiu and Ji, Hui}
}
