Multi-scale weighted gradient-based fusion for multi-focus images

Information Fusion

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 60-72

  Zhou, Zhiqiang ^a   Li, Sun ^a   Wang, Bo ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropic blur; Focus measure; Gradient based fusion; Mis registration; Multi focus images

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPIC BLUR; FOCUS MEASURE; GRADIENT BASED; MIS-REGISTRATION; MULTIFOCUS IMAGES;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84901609240     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2013.11.005     Document Type: Article

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