Visible and IR data fusion technique using the contourlet transform

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 42-47

  Ibrahim, Soad ^a   Wirth, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contourlet transform; Hidden weapons; Region based fusion

Indexed keywords

BLURRING EFFECT; COLORED IMAGES; CONTOURLET TRANSFORM; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FUSION TECHNIQUES; HIDDEN OBJECTS; IMAGE APPLICATIONS; INPUT IMAGE; IR DATA; IR IMAGES; MACHINE INTERPRETATION; MISREGISTRATION; NOISE EFFECTS; REGION-BASED; REGION-BASED IMAGE FUSION; SEGMENTATION PROCESS; SMALL REGION; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); OBJECT RECOGNITION; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 70749149884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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