Detail preserved fusion of visible and infrared images using regional saliency extraction and multi-scale image decomposition

Optics Communications

Volumn 341, Issue , 2015, Pages 199-209

  Cui, Guangmang ^a   Feng, Huajun ^a   Xu, Zhihai ^a   Li, Qi ^a   Chen, Yueting ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Frequency tuned saliency extraction; Image smoothing; Infrared and visible image fusion; Multi scale image decomposition

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; IMAGE FUSION; INFRARED IMAGING;

BETTER PERFORMANCE; EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; IMAGE SMOOTHING; INFRARED AND VISIBLE IMAGE; MULTI-SCALE IMAGE DECOMPOSITION; QUANTITATIVE INDICES; SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTIONS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84919630003     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2014.12.032     Document Type: Article

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