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IMAGE FUSION: A POWERFUL TOOL FOR OBJECT IDENTIFICATION

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Imaging for Detection and Identification

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Due to imperfections of imaging devices (optical degradations, limited resolution of CCD sensors) and instability of the observed scene (object motion, media turbulence), acquired images are often blurred, noisy and may exhibit insufficient spatial and/or temporal resolution. Such images are not suitable for object detection and recognition. Reliable detection requires recovering the original image. If multiple images of the scene are available, this can be achieved by image fusion.

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  1. Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Pod vodáarenskou věží 4, Praha 8, 18208, Czech Republic

    Filip Šroubek, Jan Flusser & Barbara Zitová

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Šroubek, F., Flusser, J., Zitová, B. (2007). IMAGE FUSION: A POWERFUL TOOL FOR OBJECT IDENTIFICATION. In: Byrnes, J. (eds) Imaging for Detection and Identification. NATO Security through Science Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5620-8_6

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