Evaluation of focus measures in multi-focus image fusion

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 493-500

  Huang, Wei ^a   Jing, Zhongliang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Focus measure; Image fusion; Multi focus; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

FOCUS MEASURE; IMAGE FUSION; MULTI-FOCUS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33845507101     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2006.09.005     Document Type: Article

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