A variational approach to recovering depth from defocused images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1158-1164

  Rajagopalan, A N ^a   Chaudhuri, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Complex spectrogram; Depth from defocus; Euler equation; Regularization; Space variant blur; Space variant filtering; Wigner distribution

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

COMPLEX SPECTROGRAM; DEPTH FROM DEFOCUS (DFD); EULER EQUATION; REGULARIZATION; SPACE FREQUENCY REPRESENTATION (SFR); SPACE VARIANT BLUR; SPACE VARIANT FILTERING; WIGNER DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0031246858     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.625126     Document Type: Article

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