Multi-focus image fusion based on non-subsampled shearlet transform

IET Image Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 633-639

  Guorong, Gao ^a,b   Luping, Xu ^a   Dongzhu, Feng ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGICAL OPENING; MULTIFOCUS IMAGE FUSION; MULTIFOCUS IMAGES; MULTIRESOLUTION IMAGES; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; POST PROCESSING; SHEARLET TRANSFORMS; VISUAL QUALITIES;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; PIXELS;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84884732358     PISSN: 17519659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr.2012.0558     Document Type: Article

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