An investigation of perceived sharpness and sharpness metrics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5668, Issue , 2005, Pages 98-110

  Zhang, Buyue ^a   Allebach, Jan P ^a   Pizlo, Zygmunt ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Normal Edge Profile; Perceived Sharpness; Psychophysical Experiment; Sharpness Metric

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; MODULATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

NORMAL EDGE PROFILE; PERCEIVED SHARPNESS; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; SHARPNESS METRICS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 21944451429     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.584627     Document Type: Conference Paper

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