Robust image fusion using a statistical signal processing approach

Information Fusion

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 119-128

  Blum, Rick S ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concealed weapon detection; Estimation; Image fusion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CONCEALED WEAPON DETECTION; IMAGE FUSION; MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; RANDOM DISTORTIONS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 13444261142     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2003.12.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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