Two methods for increasing the depth of focus of imaging systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5227, Issue , 2003, Pages 8-15

  Marom, E ^a   Ben Eliezer, E ^a   Yaroslavsky, L ^a   Zalevsky, Z ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Apertures; Extended depth of field; Extended depth of focus; Image processing; Misfocus correction; MTF; OTF

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; LENSES; MASKS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELDS; EXTENDED DEPTH OF FOCUS; MISFOCUS CORRECTION;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 1242286440     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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