Fusion of multi-sensor images based on the nonsubsampled contourlet transform

Zidonghua Xuebao/Acta Automatica Sinica

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-141

  Zhang, Qiang ^a   Guo, Bao Long ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Directional contrast; Image fusion; Image processing; Local area energy of image gradient; Nonsubsampled Contourlet transform (NSCT)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DIRECTIONAL CONTRAST; IMAGE GRADIENT; LOW FREQUENCY SUBBAND COEFFICIENTS; NONSUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORM (NSCT); WEIGHTED AVERAGE;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 40749083981     PISSN: 02544156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1004.2008.00135     Document Type: Article

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