New autofocusing technique using the frequency selective weighted median filter for video cameras

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 820-827

  Choi, Kang Sun ^b   Lee, Jun Suk ^b   Ko, Sung Jae ^a,b  

^a Korea University ^*

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Autofocusing; Criteria function; Hill climbing search; The frequency selective weighted median filter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000361335     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/30.793616     Document Type: Article

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