Image fusion for synthetic aperture radar and multispectral images based on sub-bandmodulated non-subsampled contourlet transform and pulse coupled neural network methods

Imaging Science Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 87-93

  Wang, X L ^a   Chen, C X ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Multispectral; Non subsampled contourlet transform; Pulse coupled neural networks; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE FUSION; NEURAL NETWORKS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING;

COMBINED MODULATION; FEATURE ENHANCEMENT; GRADIENT THRESHOLDS; INTRINSIC DIFFERENCES; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; NON-SUB-SAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORMS; PULSE COUPLED NEURAL NETWORK;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84962240757     PISSN: 13682199     EISSN: 1743131X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13682199.2015.1136101     Document Type: Article

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