Equivalent blur as a function of spurious response of a sampled imaging system: Application to character recognition

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1026-1033

  Driggers, Ronald G ^a   Vollmerhausen, Richard ^a   O’Kane, Barbara ^a  

^a U S ARMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DARKNESS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

DARKNESS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISION;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EQUIVALENT BLUR; SAMPLED IMAGING SYSTEMS; SPURIOUS RESPONSE;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032587753     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.16.001026     Document Type: Article

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