A modified statistical approach for image fusion using wavelet transform

Signal, Image and Video Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-144

  Arivazhagan, S ^a   Ganesan, L ^b   Subash Kumar, T G ^c  

^a MEPCO SCHLENK ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^b ALAGAPPA CHETTIAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c Jasmin Infotech Pvt Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

Fusion performance measure; Image fusion; Multi focus images; Multi spectral images; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; EDGE INFORMATION; FUSED IMAGES; FUSION PERFORMANCE MEASURE; FUSION TECHNIQUES; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; IMAGE PATCHES; INPUT IMAGE; LEVEL FUSION; LOW FREQUENCY; MULTI-FOCUS IMAGES; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGES; PEAK SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL APPROACH; SUB-BANDS;

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; FREQUENCY BANDS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 70350686697     PISSN: 18631703     EISSN: 18631711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11760-008-0065-4     Document Type: Article

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