Fusion of visible and infrared images using saliency analysis and detail preserving based image decomposition

Infrared Physics and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2013, Pages 93-99

  Zhao, Jufeng ^a   Zhou, Qiang ^a   Chen, Yueting ^a   Feng, Huajun ^a   Xu, Zhihai ^a   Li, Qi ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Multi scale decomposition; Saliency map; Visible and infrared images

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED IMAGING; PIXELS; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS);

DECOMPOSITION LEVEL; IMAGE DECOMPOSITION; INFRARED AND VISIBLE IMAGE; MULTI-SCALE DECOMPOSITION; SALIENCY DETECTION; SALIENCY MAP; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84870658200     PISSN: 13504495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infrared.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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