Multi-focus image fusion using a morphology-based focus measure in a quad-tree structure

Information Fusion

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 136-146

  De, Ishita ^a   Chanda, Bhabatosh ^b  

^a Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Depth of field Multi focus image fusion Block based fusion Focus measure Energy of morphologic gradients Quad tree structure

Indexed keywords

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; MULTIFOCUS IMAGE FUSION; MULTIFOCUS IMAGES; OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM; QUADTREE STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; REGISTRATION PROBLEMS; SUM-MODIFIED-LAPLACIAN;

IMAGE FUSION;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICS; TREES;

EID: 84880325401     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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