A non-reference image fusion metric based on mutual information of image features

Computers and Electrical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 744-756

  Haghighat, Mohammad Bagher Akbari ^a   Aghagolzadeh, Ali ^a,b   Seyedarabi, Hadi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b BABOL NOSHIRVANI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; FUSED IMAGES; FUSION ALGORITHMS; IMAGE FEATURES; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; QUALITY MEASURES; SOURCE IMAGES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIGNALS;

ALGORITHMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 80455173874     PISSN: 00457906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2011.07.012     Document Type: Article

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