Thin compound-eye camera

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 2949-2956

  Duparré, Jacques ^a   Dannberg, Peter ^a   Schreiber, Peter ^a   Bräuer, Andreas ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;

COMPOUND-EYE CAMERA; OPTICAL ISOLATION; OPTICS THICKNESS; SENSOR ARRAYS;

CAMERAS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMIMETICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSECT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMIMETICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSECTS; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 20444507095     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.002949     Document Type: Article

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