Fusion of Infrared and Visible Light Images Based on Region Segmentation

Chinese Journal of Aeronautics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-80

  Kun, Liu ^a   Lei, Guo ^a   Huihui, Li ^a   Jingsong, Chen ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China National Aeronautical Radio Electronics Research Institute   (China)

Author keywords

image fusion; image processing; infrared imaging; non subsampled contourlet transform; region segmentation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

BACKGROUND INFORMATIONS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACHES; DIRECTIONAL IMAGES; FUSED IMAGES; FUSION RULES; INFRARED TARGETS; INPUT IMAGES; MULTIRESOLUTION; NON-SUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORM; NOVEL METHODS; PIECEWISE SMOOTHES; REGION SEGMENTATION; SPARSE REPRESENTATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; VISIBLE LIGHT IMAGES;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 61549083749     PISSN: 10009361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1000-9361(08)60071-0     Document Type: Article

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