Low-light auto-focus enhancement for digital and cell-phone camera image pipelines

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 249-257

  Gamadia, Mark ^a   Kehtarnavaz, Nasser ^a   Roberts Hoffman, Katie ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell phone cameras; Digital still cameras; Image enhancement; Low light auto focus; Sharpness function quality

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL CAMERAS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY;

AUTOFOCUS SYSTEM; CELL-PHONE CAMERA; IMAGE PIPELINE; IN-FOCUS POSITION; SHARPNESS FUNCTION;

FOCUSING;

EID: 34547671106     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2007.381682     Document Type: Article

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