Novel method on dual-band infrared image fusion for dim small target detection

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Sun, Yu Qiu ^a,b   Tian, Jin Wen ^b   Liu, Jian ^b  

^a YANGTZE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Detection; Dualband infrared images; Fractal dimension; Fusion; Wavelet transformation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; INFRARED IMAGING; TARGET TRACKING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CONTRAST THRESHOLDS; DUAL-BAND INFRARED IMAGE;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 36749050829     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2801502     Document Type: Article

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