An Investigation of Methods for Determining Depth from Focus

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 97-108

  Ens, John ^a   Lawrence, Peter ^b  

^a Intense Technologies ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Depth from focus; range detection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; FOCUSING; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MACHINE VISION; RANGE FINDERS;

DEPTH DETERMINATION; RANGE DETECTION;

DEPTH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0027542937     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.192482     Document Type: Article

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