Synthesis of textured complex backgrounds

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2055-2063

  Rolland, Jannick P ^a,b,c,d,e   Goon, Alexei A ^a   Yu, Liyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b L'Ecole Superieure d'Optique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina   (United States)

^e Vision Research Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex backgrounds; Detection; First and second order statistics; Texture synthesis; Textured backgrounds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010611739     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602010     Document Type: Article

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