Multifocus image fusion based on features contrast of multiscale products in nonsubsampled contourlet transform domain

Optik

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 569-581

  Chai, Yi ^a   Li, Huafeng ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyang ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Local features contrast; Multiscale products (MSP); Nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT)

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEASUREMENTS; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; EDGE STRUCTURES; FUSED IMAGES; FUSION ALGORITHMS; HUMAN VISION SYSTEMS; LOCAL FEATURE; MULTI-SCALE PRODUCT; MULTIFOCUS IMAGE FUSION; MULTIFOCUS IMAGES; NONSUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORMS; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION CRITERIA; SELECTION PRINCIPLES; SOURCE IMAGES; SUBBAND COEFFICIENTS; SUBIMAGES; VISUAL QUALITIES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE FUSION;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 84857647071     PISSN: 00304026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2011.02.034     Document Type: Article

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