Hybrid multiresolution method for multisensor multimodal image fusion

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1519-1526

  Li, Shutao ^a   Yang, Bin ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

hybrid multiresolution; Image fusion; multisensor fusion; nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT); stationary wavelet transform (SWT)

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY CHARACTERISTICS; COMPLEX WAVELETS; CONTOURLETS; CURVELETS; HUMAN VISUAL PERCEPTION; MULTI SENSOR; MULTI-MODAL IMAGE; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; MULTI-SENSOR FUSION; MULTIRESOLUTION IMAGES; MULTIRESOLUTION METHODS; MULTIRESOLUTION TRANSFORMATION; NONSUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; STATIONARY WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 77954877056     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2010.2041924     Document Type: Article

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