Performance Analysis of Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Recovery of Depth from Defocused Images and Optimal Selection of Camera Parameters

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 175-190

  Rajagopalan, A N ^a   Chaudhuri, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Auto regressive process; Blur identification; Cramer Rao bound; Depth from defocus; Gaussian blur; Log likelihood function; Maximum likelihood estimator; Optimality criterion

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ESTIMATORS; AUTO-AGGRESSIVE PROCESS; BLUR IDENTIFICATION; CRAMER-RAO BOUND; DEPTH FROM DEFOCUS; GAUSSIAN BLUR; LOG-LIKELYHOOD FUNCTION;

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032309702     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008019215914     Document Type: Article

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