Experimenting with pixel-level NDT data fusion techniques

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1083-1090

  Gros, Xavier E ^a,b   Liu, Zheng ^c   Tsukada, K ^c   Hanasaki, K ^c  

^a IEEE

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; CRACKS; EDDY CURRENT TESTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; INFRARED IMAGING; PROBABILITY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DAUBECHIE WAVELET; MULTIRESOLUTION MOSAIC TECHNIQUE; PIXEL LEVEL; STEERABLE PYRAMID TRANSFORM;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 0034293816     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.872934     Document Type: Article

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