Novel cooperative neural fusion algorithms for image restoration and image fusion

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 367-381

  Xia, Youshen ^a   Kamel, Mohamed S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blind Gaussian noise environments; Cooperative neural fusion (CNF) algorithms; Image fusion; Image restoration; Nonoptimal regularization parameters; Robust image estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BLIND GAUSSIAN NOISE; COOPERATIVE NEURAL FUSION REGULARIZATION; IMAGE ESTIMATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33847756765     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.888340     Document Type: Article

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