Multifocus image fusion based on redundant wavelet transform

IET Image Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 283-293

  Li, X ^a,b   He, M ^a   Roux, M ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE FEATURES; FEATURE LEVEL; FUSED IMAGES; MULTIFOCUS IMAGE FUSION; MULTIFOCUS IMAGES; MULTIPLE IMAGE; PIXEL LEVEL FUSION; PYRAMID TRANSFORM; REDUNDANT WAVELET TRANSFORM; SOURCE IMAGES;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 77955536363     PISSN: 17519659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr.2008.0259     Document Type: Article

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