On defocus, diffusion and depth estimation

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 311-319

  Namboodiri, Vinay P ^a   Chaudhuri, Subhasis ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Depth from defocus; Diffusion; Shape estimation; Spectral method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; DIFFUSION; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DEFOCUS SPACE; PIN HOLE IMAGE; SHAPE ESTIMATION; SPECTRAL METHOD;

DEPTH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33751417356     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2006.04.011     Document Type: Article

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