Multifocus image fusion by combining with mixed-order structure tensors and multiscale neighborhood

Information Sciences

Volumn 349-350, Issue , 2016, Pages 25-49

  Li, Huafeng ^a   Li, Xiaosong ^a   Yu, Zhengtao ^a   Mao, Cunli ^a  

^a KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fractional differential; Multifocus image fusion; Multiscale focus measure; Multiscale neighborhood; Structure tensor

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; TENSORS;

FOCUS MEASURE; FRACTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL; MULTIFOCUS IMAGE FUSION; MULTISCALE NEIGHBORHOOD; STRUCTURE TENSORS;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84960127582     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2016.02.030     Document Type: Article

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