Comparing multispectral image fusion methods for a target detection task

2006 9th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lanir, Joel ^a   Maltz, Masha ^a   Yatskaer, Irena ^a   Rotman, Stanley R ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Human factors; Image fusion; Multispectral imaging; Target detection

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; EDGE DETECTION; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FUSION REACTIONS; INFORMATION FUSION; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; TARGET DRONES; TARGETS;

COMPARISON STUDIES; EDGE ENHANCEMENTS; FALSE COLOR; FUSION METHODS; HUMAN FACTORS; HUMAN OBSERVERS; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MULTIPLE TARGETS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (PCA); PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENTS; REACTION TIME; RESEARCH AREA; SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE; TARGET DETECTION; TARGET DETECTIONS;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 50149086096     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIF.2006.301787     Document Type: Conference Paper

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