A novel multi-focus image fusion algorithm based on feature extraction and wavelets

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7000, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nava, Rodrigo ^a   Escalante Ramírez, Boris ^a   Cristóbal, Gabriel ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Image fusion; Perceptual quality metrics; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPLEXATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER VISION; DATA FUSION; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUSION REACTIONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

CANNY FILTERS; DEPTH OF FIELD (DOF); DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING; EARLY VISION; EDGE EFFECTS; FUSED IMAGES; GAUSSIAN; GIBBS' PHENOMENON; MULTI-FOCUS IMAGE; ONE WAY; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); OPTICAL LENSES; ORTHOGONAL WAVELETS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY METRICS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 47749106910     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.781403     Document Type: Conference Paper

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