Non-Gaussian model-based fusion of noisy images in the wavelet domain

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-65

  Loza, Artur ^a   Bull, David ^a   Canagarajah, Nishan ^a   Achim, Alin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Denoising; Image fusion; Multimodal; Statistical modelling

Indexed keywords

ALPHA-STABLE DISTRIBUTION; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; DENOISING; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; FUSION QUALITY; GAUSSIANS; MULTI-MODAL; MULTI-MODAL IMAGE; MULTIMODAL DATASETS; NOISE REDUCTIONS; NOISY IMAGE; NON-GAUSSIAN; NON-GAUSSIAN MODELS; STATISTICAL MODELLING; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET DOMAIN; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 71549142564     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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