Image thumbnail based on fusion for better image browsing

Abstract

Thumbnail image is a smaller version of higher resolution image. It is used to represent the information contained in the original larger image. Thumbnail image gives basic information about the image composition, so that rough judgment on the original image can be done by the user. Yet, common thumbnail algorithms are not sensitive towards blur. Therefore, in order to overcome this problem, we propose a simple image fusion algorithm for thumbnail image. Experimental results carried out in this research show that the thumbnail images generated from the proposed algorithm are more informative as compared with some other common image thumbnails.