Accurate Recovery of Three-Dimensional Shape from Image Focus

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 266-274

  Subbarao, Murali ^a   Choi, Tae ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hyundai Electronics America 300 Sylvan Ave Englewood Cliffs NJ 07632 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

camera parameters; focus measure; focused image reconstruction; Focused Image Surface; paraxial geometric optics; shape recovery; Shape from focus

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; CAMERAS; FOCUSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LENSES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FOCUSED IMAGE SURFACE; PARAXIAL GEOMETRIC OPTICS; SHAPE FROM FOCUS METHOD; SHAPE RECOVERY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0029276969     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.368191     Document Type: Article

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