Comparing multispectral image fusion methods for a target detection task

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Lanir, Joel ^a   Maltz, Masha ^a   Rotman, Stanley R ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Image fusion; Multispectral imaging; Visual interface; Visual search

Indexed keywords

EYE MOVEMENTS; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TARGET TRACKING;

PAIRED-COMPARISON TECHNIQUE; VISUAL INTERFACE; VISUAL SEARCH;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 34548028510     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2746248     Document Type: Article

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