Image matting for fusion of multi-focus images in dynamic scenes

Information Fusion

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 147-162

  Li, Shutao ^a   Kang, Xudong ^a   Hu, Jianwen ^a   Yang, Bin ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Multi focus image fusion Image matting Dynamic scenes Morphological filtering Focus information

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION FILTERING;

DYNAMIC SCENES; FUSION ALGORITHMS; IMAGE MATTING; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING; MULTIFOCUS IMAGE FUSION; MULTIFOCUS IMAGES; ROUGH SEGMENTATION; SOURCE IMAGES;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84878308650     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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