Global measure for assessing image fusion methods

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Tsagaris, Vassilis ^a   Anastassopoulos, Vassilis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Global measure; Image fusion; Information theory

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY;

GRAY-SCALE IMAGE; IMAGE FUSION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33748621182     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2174005     Document Type: Article

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