Fusing images with different focuses using support vector machines

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1555-1561

  Li, Shutao ^a   Kwok, James Tin Yau ^b   Tsang, Ivor Wai Hung ^b   Wang, Yaonan ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Support vector machines; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DISCRETE WAVELET FRAME TRANSFORM; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM; IMAGE FUSION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; EYE FIXATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; FIXATION, OCULAR; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 9244257883     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNN.2004.837780     Document Type: Article

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