Dynamic range in automated visual web inspection

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 300-311

  Laitinen, Jyrki ^a,b,c,d  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c Valmet Corporation   (Finland)

^d Hungarian Physical Society   (Finland)

Author keywords

CCD noise; Dynamic range; Image formation; Image noise; Paper inspection; Web inspection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003273768     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601617     Document Type: Article

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