Improving quality of unwarped omni-images with irregularly-distributed unfilled pixels by a new edge-preserving interpolation technique

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1926-1936

  Jeng, Sheng Wen ^a   Tsai, Wen Hsiang ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Edge preserving; Hypercatadioptric camera; Interpolation; Irregular; Omni image

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; EDGE DETECTION; INTERPOLATION; PIXELS;

EDGE PRESERVING INTERPOLATION; HYPERCATADIOPTRIC CAMERAS; IRREGULARLY DISTRIBUTED PIXELS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 34548702882     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2007.03.021     Document Type: Article

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