Denoising of continuous-wave time-of-flight depth images using confidence measures

Optical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Frank, Mario ^a   Plaue, Matthias ^b   Hamprecht, Fred A ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

filtering; image enhancement; image processing; ranging

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE MEASURE; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DE-NOISING; DEPTH IMAGE; DEPTH MAP; FREQUENCY MODULATED SIGNAL; INTENSITY IMAGES; MEDIAN FILTERING; MODULATION AMPLITUDES; NOISE PROCESS; NORMALIZED CONVOLUTION; ON CHIPS; RANGE IMAGES; RANGE SENSORS; TIME OF FLIGHT;

ADAPTIVE FILTERS; FILTRATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MODULATION; RANGE FINDING; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

NOISE POLLUTION CONTROL;

EID: 78149402053     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3159869     Document Type: Article

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