Objective evaluation of signal-level image fusion performance

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Petrović, Vladimir ^a   Xydeas, Costas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fusion evaluation; Image fusion; Information preservation; Objective fusion performance; Signal level fusion

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SUBJECTIVE TESTING; VISION;

FUSION EVALUATION; IMAGE FUSION; INFORMATION PRESERVATION; OBJECTIVE FUSION PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL-LEVEL FUSION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33644774323     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2009764     Document Type: Article

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