Salience preserving multifocus image fusion with dynamic range compression

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2369-2380

  Hong, Richang ^a   Wang, Chao ^a   Wang, Meng ^a   Sun, Fuming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Dynamic range compression; Halo effect; Multifocus image fusion; Salience map; Trigonometric average

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RANGE COMPRESSION; HALO EFFECT; MULTIFOCUS IMAGE FUSION; SALIENCE MAP; TRIGONOMETRIC AVERAGE;

VIDEO CAMERAS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 69949172812     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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