Fusion method for infrared and other-type images based on the multi-scale Gaussian filtering and morphological transform

Zhi-Jian LI; Feng-Bao YANG; Yu-Bin GAO; Lin-Na JI; Peng HU

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2020.06.021

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