Casting Light on Illumination: A Computational Model and Dimensional Analysis of Sources

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 322-335

  Langer, Michael S ^a   Zucker, Steven W ^b  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; FOUR DIMENSIONAL LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHT CASTING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031073710     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1996.0574     Document Type: Article

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