Theoretical analysis of an information-based quality measure for image fusion

Information Fusion

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-175

  Chen, Yin ^a   Xue, Zhiyun ^a   Blum, Rick S ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Image quality analysis; Image quality measure

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE FUSION; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CLOSED FORM EXPRESSIONS; IMAGE DISTORTION; QUALITY MEASURES; WEIGHTED AVERAGING FUSION ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 39749177755     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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