Salience preserving image fusion

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2006-09-28

2009-12-22

Wu, Xiao M (Department: 2628)

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

Graphic manipulation

C382S284000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07636098

ABSTRACT:
Salience-preserving image fusion is described. In one aspect, multi-channel images are fused into a single image. The fusing operations are based on importance-weighted gradients. The importance weighted gradients are measured using respective salience maps for each channel in the multi-channel images.

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