A multifocus image fusion in nonsubsampled contourlet domain with variational fusion strategy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8004, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ma, Ning ^a,b   Luo, Limin ^b   Zhou, Zeming ^a   Liang, Miaoyuan ^a  

^a PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fusion strategy; Image fusion; Multiscale geometrical analysis (MGA); Nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT); Variational

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; ENERGY FUNCTIONALS; FUSION STRATEGIES; GRADIENT DESCENT FLOWS; INPUT IMAGE; MAIN COMPONENT; MULTIFOCUS IMAGE FUSION; MULTISCALES; NONSUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET; NONSUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORMS; NUMERICAL SCHEME; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION CRITERIA; SUBBAND COEFFICIENTS; VARIATIONAL; VISUAL QUALITIES;

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE FUSION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84055176767     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.902101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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