Revisiting pentland’s estimator of light source direction

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 118-124

  Chojnacki, Wojciech ^a   Brooks, Michael J ^a   Gihhins, Danny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; LIGHT SOURCES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

IMAGE POINTS; PENTLAND'S ESTIMATOR;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0028368221     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.11.000118     Document Type: Article

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