Real-time focus range sensor

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1186-1198

  Nayar, Shree K ^a,b   Watanabe, Masahiro ^a,b   Noguchi, Minor ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active illumination pattern; Constant magnification defocusing; Depth estimation; Depth from defocus; Image sensing; Optical transfer function; Real time range sensor; Tuned focus operator

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE ILLUMINATION PATTERNS; CONSTANT MAGNIFICATION DEFOCUSING; DEPTH ESTIMATION; IMAGING OPTICS; NARROW BAND LINEAR OPERATORS; REAL TIME RANGE SENSORS; TUNED FOCUS OPERATORS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0030387952     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.546256     Document Type: Article

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