Improved phase demodulation for grain orientation measurement

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 160-169

  Zhou, James ^a   Shen, Jun ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Grain orientation; Laser sampling; Phase demodulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; HARDWOODS; LASER OPTICS; TEXTURES;

GRAIN ORIENTATION; LASER SAMPLING; PHASE DEMODULATION;

DEMODULATION;

ALGORITHMS; HARDWOODS; WOOD GRAIN;

EID: 33748756266     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2006.05.004     Document Type: Article

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