Psychophysical and metric assessment of fused images

Proceedings - APGV 2005: 2nd Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 43-50

  Dixon, Timothy D ^a   Noyes, Jan ^a   Troscianko, Tom ^a   Canga, Eduardo Fernández ^a   Bull, Dave ^a   Canagarajah, Nishan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Image quality metrics; Psychophysical testing

Indexed keywords

IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRARED RADIATION; METRIC SYSTEM; SIGNAL DETECTION;

IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE QUALITY METRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICAL TESTING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 29344448260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1080402.1080410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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