Improving fusion of surveillance images in sensor networks using independent component analysis

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1029-1035

  Cvejic, Nedeljko ^a   Bull, David ^a   Canagarajah, Nishan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fusion metrics; Image fusion; Independent component analysis; JPEG 2000; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE FUSION; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PACKET SWITCHING; SENSOR NETWORKS;

FUSION METRICS; JPEG 2000; MULTIMODAL SURVEILLANCE IMAGES;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 35348877861     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2007.4341582     Document Type: Article

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