A 2D Wigner Distribution-based multisize windows technique for image fusion

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-19

  Redondo, R ^a   Fischer, S ^a   Sroubek F ^a,b   Cristobal G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Multifocus; Wigner Distribution

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

SPACE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; WIGNER DISTRIBUTION;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 37049028584     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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