Abas, Asan İhsanBaykan, Nurdan Akhan2021-12-132021-12-1320210765-00191958-5608https://doi.org/10.18280/ts.380201https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13091/12Focus is limited and singular in many image capture devices. Therefore, different focused objects at different distances are obtained in a single image taken. Image fusion can be defined as the acquisition of multiple focused objects in a single image by combining important information from two or more images into a single image. In this paper, a new multi-focus image fusion method based on Bat Algorithm (BA) is presented in a Multi-Scale Transform (MST) to overcome limitations of standard MST Transform. Firstly, a specific MST (Laplacian Pyramid or Curvelet Transform) is performed on the two source images to obtain their low-pass and high-pass bands. Secondly, optimization algorithms were used to find out optimal weights for coefficients in low-pass bands to improve the accuracy of the fusion image and finally the fused multi-focus image is reconstructed by the inverse MST. The experimental results are compared with different methods using reference and non-reference evaluation metrics to evaluate the performance of image fusion methods.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessParticle Swarm OptimizationBat AlgorithmLaplacian PyramidCurvelet TransformImage FusionNonsubsampled Contourlet TransformSelfArticle10.18280/ts.3802012-s2.0-85107926903