Multifocus image fusion and restoration with sparse representation

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 884-892

  Yang, Bin ^a   Li, Shutao ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Image restoration; Sparse representation

Indexed keywords

CONTOURLET TRANSFORM; CURVELET TRANSFORMS; FUSED IMAGES; FUSION RULE; IMAGE RESTORATION; MORPHOLOGICAL WAVELET; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; MULTIFOCUS IMAGE FUSION; MULTIFOCUS IMAGES; OVERCOMPLETE DICTIONARIES; PYRAMID DECOMPOSITION; SOURCE IMAGES; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; SPATIAL GRADIENTS; STATIONARY WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RESTORATION; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 77949422825     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2026612     Document Type: Article

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