Various aspects of camera settings and image processing in the calibration of thermo-chromic liquid crystals for accurate particle image thermometry measurements

Journal of Visualization

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 241-250

  Bednarz, Tomasz P ^a   Lei, Chengwang ^b   Patterson, John C ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Image processing; Median filter; Particle image thermometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650309162     PISSN: 13438875     EISSN: 18758975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12650-010-0038-x     Document Type: Article

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