Scale-space filter for smoothing electronic speckle pattern interferometry fringes

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3549-3554

  Dávila, Abundio ^a   Kaufmann, Guillermo H ^b   Kerr, David ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital image processing; Fringe analysis; Speckle metrology; Speckle noise reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000409981     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601090     Document Type: Article

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