Enhancing effective depth-of-field by image fusion using mathematical morphology

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1278-1287

  De, Ishita ^b   Chanda, Bhabatosh ^a   Chattopadhyay, Buddhajyoti ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College   (India)

Author keywords

Correlation; Depth of field; Image fusion; Image gradient; Morphological filters; Multifocus images; Multiscale top hat transformation; Registration

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL SENSORS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE GRADIENT; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERS; MULTISCALE TOP-HAT TRANSFORMATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33749567224     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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