Multi-scale fusion algorithm comparisons: Pyramid, DWT and iterative DWT

2009 12th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1060-1067

  Zheng, Yufeng ^a  

^a ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced discrete wavelet transform (aDWT); Image quality index; Iterative image fusion; Laplacian pyramid; Normalized mutual information; Ratio spatial frequency error

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM (ADWT); IMAGE QUALITY INDEX; ITERATIVE IMAGE FUSION; LAPLACIAN PYRAMID; NORMALIZED MUTUAL INFORMATION; RATIO SPATIAL FREQUENCY ERROR;

ALGORITHMS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION FUSION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; METRIC SYSTEM; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 70449375130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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