Use of an intensity threshold to improve the visibility of ghost images produced by incoherent light

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 6291-6296

  Basano, Lorenzo ^a   Ottonello, Pasquale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VIDEO CAMERAS;

SPECKLE PATTERNS; THERMAL LIGHT GHOST IMAGING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 36148987626     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.006291     Document Type: Article

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