Generalized random walks for fusion of multi-exposure images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3634-3646

  Shen, Rui ^a   Cheng, Irene ^a   Shi, Jianbo ^b   Basu, Anup ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Image enhancement; Image fusion; Multi exposure fusion; Random walks

Indexed keywords

COLOR CONSISTENCY; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; FUSION METHODS; FUSION TECHNIQUES; GENERALIZED RANDOM WALKS; HIGH QUALITY IMAGES; IMAGE FUSION TECHNIQUES; LOCAL CONTRAST; MULTI-EXPOSURE IMAGES; OPTIMAL BALANCE; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PROBABILITY ESTIMATION; QUALITY MEASURES; RANDOM WALK; SINGLE IMAGES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE FUSION; OPTIMIZATION;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 82055163045     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2150235     Document Type: Article

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