Color night vision: Opponent processing in the fusion of visible and IR imagery

Neural Networks

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-6

  Waxman, Allen M ^a   Gove, Alan N ^a   Fay, David A ^a   Racamato, Joseph P ^a   Carrick, James E ^a   Seibert, Michael C ^a   Savoye, Eugene D ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

color vision; image fusion; image intensifier; low light CCD; night vision; opponent processing; thermal IR

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIERS (SOLID STATE); INFRARED IMAGING; NAVIGATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VISIBILITY;

COLOR CONTRAST GRAYSCALE IMAGES; IMAGE FUSION; NIGHT VISION; OPPONENT PROCESSING; POLARITY;

COLOR VISION;

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGERY; NIGHT VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031025803     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-6080(96)00057-3     Document Type: Article

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