Color-to-grayscale conversion through weighted multiresolution channel fusion

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Wu, Tirui ^a   Toet, Alexander ^b,c  

^a Ford Motor Research and Engineering (Nanjing) Co Ltd   (China)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

color to grayscale; image fusion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE FUSION;

COLOR-TO-GRAYSCALE; CONVERSION ALGORITHM; DISCRIMINABILITY; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; MULTIRESOLUTION; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; VISUAL QUALITY METRICS;

COLOR;

EID: 84905728191     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JEI.23.4.043004     Document Type: Article

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