Focus measurement and all in-focus image synthesis for light-field rendering

Systems and Computers in Japan

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-12

  Takahashi, Keita ^a,c,d,e,f   Kubota, Akira ^b,e,g   Naemura, Takeshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c School of Information Science and Technology   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e IEEE   (Japan)

^f ACM   (Japan)

^g Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

All focus image synthesis; Arbitrary viewpoint image synthesis; Focus measurement; Light field rendering; Reconstruction filter

Indexed keywords

ALL-FOCUS IMAGE SYNTHESIS; ARBITRARY VIEWPOINT IMAGE SYNTHESIS; FOCUS MEASUREMENT; LIGHT FIELD RENDERING; RECONSTRUCTION FILTER;

IMAGE QUALITY; STABILITY; WAVE FILTERS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 31144451865     PISSN: 08821666     EISSN: 1520684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/scj.20512     Document Type: Article

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