Multi-resolution Image Fusion in Remote Sensing

Manjunath V. Joshi has received his M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. Currently, he is serving as a Professor with the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, India. He has been involved in active research in the areas of computer vision, machine learning and cognitive radio and has several publications in quality journals and conferences. He has co-authored two books entitled Motion-Free Super Resolution (2005) and Digital Heritage Reconstruction using Super-resolution and Inpainting (2016). Dr Joshi has received Outstanding Researcher Award in Engineering by the Research Scholars Forum of IIT Bombay and Dr Vikram Sarabhai Award for 2006-2007. Kishor P. Upla is Assistant Professor in Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat (SVNIT). He received his Ph.D. degree from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, India. He has fourteen years of teaching experience. His areas of interest include signal and image processing, multi-spectral and hyperspectral image analysis.

• Preface; Acknowledgement; Dedication; List of figures; List of tables; 1. Introduction; 2. Literature review; 3. Image fusion using different edge preserving filters; 4. Image fusion: model based approach with degradation estimation; 5. Use of self-similarity and Gabor Prior; 6. Image fusion: application to super-resolution of natural images; 7. Conclusions and directions for future research; Bibliography; Index.