Resolution consideration in spatially variant sensors

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 901-912

  Lim, F L ^a   Venkatesh, S ^a   West, G A W ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complex log mapping; Raytracing; Space variant active vision; Tracking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SENSORS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL SENSORS;

COMPLEX LOG MAPPING; RAY TRACING; SPACE VARIANT ACTIVE VISION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0031377513     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(97)00039-5     Document Type: Article

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