Objective evaluation of color image fusion methods

Optical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Tsagaris, Vassilis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Patras Science Park   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fusion metric; Image fusion; Image quality; Information theory; Objective evaluation

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGES; COLOR INFORMATION; COLOR REPRESENTATION; COMMON INFORMATION; CONDITIONAL MUTUAL INFORMATION; FUSED IMAGES; FUSION METHODS; FUSION METRIC; INFORMATION TRANSFERS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NIGHT VISION; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SOURCE IMAGES;

COLOR; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION THEORY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 70349687720     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3153331     Document Type: Article

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