Separation of transparent layers using focus

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-39

  Schechner, Yoav Y ^a   Kiryati, Nahum ^b   Basri, Ronen ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; TRANSPARENCY;

BLUR KERNELS; SEMIREFLECTIONS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0034249462     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008166017466     Document Type: Article

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