Scene-based nonuniformity correction with video sequences and registration

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1241-1250

  Hardie, Russell C ^a   Hayat, Majeed M ^a   Armstrong, Earnest ^b   Yasuda, Brian ^b  

^a University of Dayton   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IRRADIATION;

VIDEO SEQUENCES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0000001473     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.001241     Document Type: Article

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