Image fusion with nonsubsampled contourlet transform and sparse representation

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Jun ^a   Peng, Jinye ^a   Feng, Xiaoyi ^a   He, Guiqing ^a   Wu, Jun ^b   Yan, Kun ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINA ACADEMY OF SPACE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE FUSION METHODS; MULTI-SCALE DECOMPOSITION; MULTI-SCALE TRANSFORMS; NON SUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORM (NSCT); NON-SUB-SAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORMS; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; SUBBAND COEFFICIENTS; TRANSFORM-BASED METHODS;

IMAGE FUSION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84890107544     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JEI.22.4.043019     Document Type: Article

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