Reconstructing arbitrarily focused images from two differently focused images using linear filters

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1848-1859

  Kubota, Akira ^a   Aizawa, Kiyoharu ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blur estimation; Image reconstruction; Inverse filter; Multifocus images; Out of focus blur

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL FILTERS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BLUR ESTIMATION; INVERSE FILTER; LINEAR FILTER; MULTIFOCUS IMAGES; OUT-OF-FOCUS BLUR;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LINEAR MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 27844451518     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.854468     Document Type: Article

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