Multiscale fusion of visual and thermal images for robust face recognition

Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety, CIHSPS 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 112-116

  Kwon, Oh Kyu ^a   Kong, Seong G ^a  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Discrete wavelet transform; Face recognition; Multi scale fusion; Thermal infrared images

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRARED IMAGING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DATA FUSION; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM; MULTI-SCALE FUSION; THERMAL INFRARED IMAGES;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 33745506825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIHSPS.2005.1500623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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