Multi-focus image fusion with dense SIFT

Information Fusion

Volumn 23, Issue , 2015, Pages 139-155

  Liu, Yu ^a   Liu, Shuping ^a   Wang, Zengfu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT MACHINES   (China)

Author keywords

Activity level measurement; Dense SIFT; Feature space transform; Local feature matching; Multi focus image fusion

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

ACTIVITY LEVELS; DENSE SIFT; FEATURE SPACE; LOCAL FEATURE; MULTIFOCUS IMAGE FUSION;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84908402697     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2014.05.004     Document Type: Article

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