A new metric based on extended spatial frequency and its application to DWT based fusion algorithms

Information Fusion

Volumn 8, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 177-192

  Zheng, Yufeng ^a   Essock, Edward A ^a   Hansen, Bruce C ^a   Haun, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Back propagation (BP); Fusion evaluation; Image fusion; Image pyramid; Spatial frequency; Wavelet transform (DWT)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT THEORY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

FUSION EVALUATION; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE PYRAMID; SPATIAL FREQUENCY;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 33846620939     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2005.04.003     Document Type: Article

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