Unification of image fusion and super-resolution using jointly trained dictionaries and local information contents

IET Image Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1299-1310

  Iqba, M ^a   Chen, J ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL INFORMATION; MULTI-MODAL IMAGE; MULTI-MODAL IMAGING; ORTHOGONAL MATCHING PURSUIT; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUPERRESOLUTION; VISUAL QUALITIES;

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84879996764     PISSN: 17519659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr.2012.0122     Document Type: Article

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