A variational method for multiple-image blending

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1809-1822

  Wang, Wei ^a   Ng, Michael K ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Alternating minimization; energy functional; image blending; variational approach; weighting mask functions

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING MINIMIZATION; ENERGY FUNCTIONAL; IMAGE BLENDING; VARIATIONAL APPROACHES; WEIGHTING MASK FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHMS;

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84859012685     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2176952     Document Type: Article

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