A region-based multi-sensor image fusion scheme using pulse-coupled neural network

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1948-1956

  Li, Min ^a,b   Cai, Wei ^b   Tan, Zheng ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Image segmentation; Pulse coupled neural network

Indexed keywords

IMAGE FUSION; MULTI-SCALE DECOMPOSITION; PULSE-COUPLED NEURAL NETWORK (PCNN);

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSORS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749677854     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2006.05.004     Document Type: Article

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