Boundary finding based multi-focus image fusion through multi-scale morphological focus-measure

Information Fusion

Volumn 35, Issue , 2017, Pages 81-101

  Zhang, Yu ^a   Bai, Xiangzhi ^a   Wang, Tao ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary finding; Multi focus image fusion; Multi scale morphological focus measure

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FUSION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BOUNDARY DETECTION; BOUNDARY FINDING; BOUNDARY REGIONS; FOCUS MEASURE; MULTIFOCUS IMAGE FUSION; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; STATE OF THE ART; VISUAL QUALITIES;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84988650908     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2016.09.006     Document Type: Article

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