Estimating radiometric response functions from image noise variance

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5305 LNCS, Issue PART 4, 2008, Pages 623-637

  Takamatsu, Jun ^a,b   Matsushita, Yasuyuki ^c   Ikeuchi, Katsushi ^a,d  

^a Microsoft Institute for Japanese Academic Research Collaboration

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; RADIOMETRY;

IMAGE NOISE; LINEARITY OF RESPONSE; NOISE VARIANCE; RADIOMETRIC RESPONSE; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EID: 57149145281     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88693-8_46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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