Fusion of multiparametric SAR images based on SW-nonsubsampled contourlet and PCNN

Signal Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2596-2608

  Yang, Shuyuan ^a   Wang, Min ^a   Lu, YanXiong ^a   Qi, Weidong ^a   Jiao, Licheng ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clarity; Multiparametric SAR images fusion; PCNN; SW NSCT

Indexed keywords

CLARITY; FUSION IMAGE; FUSION RULE; GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATION; HIGH FREQUENCY; LINKING STRENGTH; LOW FREQUENCY; LOWPASS BANDS; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; MULTIBAND; MULTIPARAMETRIC SAR IMAGES FUSION; MULTISCALE; NONSUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET; PCNN; PULSE COUPLED NEURAL NETWORK; SAR IMAGES; SHIFT INVARIANT; STATIONARY WAVELET; SUB-BANDS; SUBBAND IMAGES; SW-NSCT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; WEIGHTED FUSION;

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LOW PASS FILTERS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 67651087149     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.04.027     Document Type: Article

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