Image enhancement by local information fusion with pre-processing and composed metric

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7090, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Aubailly, Mathieu ^a   Vorontsov, Mikhail A ^a,b   Carhart, Gary W ^b   Valley, Michael T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisoplanatism; Atmospheric turbulence; Image processing; Image quality metric; Imaging

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ATMOSPHERICS; CRACK PROPAGATION; DATA FUSION; DATA PROCESSING; FUSION REACTIONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFORMATION FUSION; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; RADAR IMAGING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; TURBULENCE;

ANISOPLANATIC; ANISOPLANATISM; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY METRIC; IMAGING; IMAGING ALGORITHMS; IMAGING ENHANCEMENT; LOCAL INFORMATION; PRE-PROCESSING; QUALITY INFORMATION; SHORT-EXPOSURE IMAGES; SOURCE DATA; SYNTHESIZED IMAGES; TARGET-IN-THE-LOOP; WIDE FIELD-OF-VIEW;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 52349122974     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.799874     Document Type: Conference Paper

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