Adaptive multi-focus image fusion using a wavelet-based statistical sharpness measure

Signal Processing

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2137-2146

  Tian, Jing ^a   Chen, Li ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Multi focus; Sharpness; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMAGES; CONTENT INFORMATION; CRITICAL ISSUES; INPUT IMAGE; LAPLACIAN MIXTURE MODELS; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; MULTI-FOCUS; MULTIFOCUS IMAGE FUSION; OBJECTIVE METRICS; SHARPNESS; TEST IMAGES; WAVELET; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET DOMAIN;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84862785783     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2012.01.027     Document Type: Article

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