Multi-focus image fusion using PCNN

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2003-2016

  Wang, Zhaobin ^a,b   Ma, Yide ^a   Gu, Jason ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Focus measure; Image fusion; PCNN

Indexed keywords

DUAL CHANNEL; EXISTING METHOD; FOCUS MEASURE; FOUR-GROUP; INPUT IMAGE; MULTIFOCUS IMAGE FUSION; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION CRITERIA; OTHER ALGORITHMS; PULSE COUPLED NEURAL NETWORK; SOURCE IMAGES; VISUAL EFFECTS;

NEURAL NETWORKS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 76749121292     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2010.01.011     Document Type: Article

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