A general framework for image fusion based on multi-scale transform and sparse representation

Information Fusion

Volumn 24, Issue , 2015, Pages 147-164

  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

Image fusion; Multi scale transform; Sparse representation

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DECOMPOSITION LEVEL; DUAL TREE COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORM (DT-CWT); GENERAL IMAGE FUSIONS; MULTI-SCALE TRANSFORMS; NON SUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORM (NSCT); REPRESENTATION THEORY; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 85027936737     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2014.09.004     Document Type: Article

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