Fusion of infrared and visible light images based on nonsubsampled contourlet transform

Hongwai Yu Haomibo Xuebao/Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 476-480

  Zhang, Qiang ^a   Guo, Bao Long ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Local area energy matching; Nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT); Physical feature

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; INFRARED IMAGING;

INFRARED IMAGES; LOCAL AREA ENERGY MATCHING; NONSUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORM (NSCT); PHYSICAL FEATURE; VISIBLE LIGHT IMAGES;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 38049144767     PISSN: 10019014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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