Depth from automatic defocusing

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1011-1023

  Aslantas, V ^a   Pham, D T ^b  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; FOCUSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION USE;

AUTOMATIC FOCUSING TECHNIQUES; DEFOCUSED IMAGES; INTRUSIVE EMISSIONS PROBLEMS; OCCLUSION;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846872816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001011     Document Type: Article

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