Multifocus image fusion by combining curvelet and wavelet transform

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1295-1301

  Li, Shutao ^a   Yang, Bin ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Curvelet transform; Image fusion; Multifocus; Sensor fusion; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; IMAGE REGISTRATION; SENSOR DATA FUSION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CURVELET TRANSFORM; FOCUS PLANE;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 43249115812     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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