Simultaneous homographic and comparametric alignment of multiple exposure-adjusted pictures of the same scene

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1485-1494

  Candocia, Frank M ^a  

^a The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparametric equation; Domain and range registration; Dynamic range map; Exposure adjustment; Homography; Perspective projection; Simultaneous alignment

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; OPTICAL FILTERS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPARAMETRIC EQUATION; DOMAIN AND RANGE REGISTRATION; DYNAMIC RANGE MAP; EXPOSURE ADJUSTMENT; HOMOGRAPHY; PRESPECTIVE PROJECTION; SIMULTANEOUS ALIGNMENT;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 10844271623     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2003.819222     Document Type: Article

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