Fusion technique for grey-scale visible light and infrared images based on non-subsampled contourlet transform and intensity-hue-saturation transform

IET Signal Processing

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-80

  Kong, W ^a   Lei, Y ^a   Ni, X ^a  

^a AIR FORCE ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FUSION; CONTOURLET TRANSFORM; FUSED IMAGES; FUSION RULE; FUSION TECHNIQUES; HIGH FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; IHS TRANSFORMS; INFRARED IMAGES; INTENSITY HUE SATURATIONS; INTENSITY INFORMATION; LOW FREQUENCY; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; MULTISCALES; RED GREEN BLUES; REFERENCE IMAGE; SPECTRUM INFORMATION; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE LIGHT IMAGES;

INFRARED IMAGING;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79951742211     PISSN: 17519675     EISSN: 17519683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-spr.2009.0263     Document Type: Article

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