An occlusion insensitive adaptive focus measurement method

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 14212-14224

  Aydin, Tarkan ^a,b   Akgul, Yusuf Sinan ^a  

^a GEBZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPTH DISCONTINUITIES; DEPTH ESTIMATION; DEPTH FROM FOCUS; FOCUS MEASURE; FOCUS MEASUREMENT; REAL-WORLD APPLICATION; WINDOW SIZE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 77953868089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014212     Document Type: Article

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