Image fusion based on visual salient features and the cross-contrast

• Published in: Journal of visual communication and image representation Vol. 40; pp. 218 - 224
• Main Authors: Adu, Jianhua, Xie, Shenghua, Gan, Jianhong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.10.2016
• Subjects: Image fusion; Nonsubsampled contourlet transform; The cross-contrast; Visual salient features; Visual salient features; Nonsubsampled contourlet transform; The cross-contrast; Image fusion

•Low frequency subband coefficients are selected based on visual salient features.•Bandpass directional subband coefficients are selected by the cross-contrast.•Three maps of visual salient features are constructed based on visual saliency. To extract and combine the features of the original images,...