Incoherent optical fiber bundle calibration for image transmission: Faster, finer, and higher-resolution image reconstruction

Optical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Demuynck, Olivier ^a   Menéndez, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

hazardous areas; high resolution image reconstruction; incoherent optical fiber bundle calibration for image transmission

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION METHOD; HAZARDOUS AREA; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE DEFINITION; IMAGE TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBER BUNDLE; PROCESSING TIME; RECENT PROGRESS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RESOLUTION METHODS; VISUAL INSPECTION;

COMPUTER VISION; FIBERS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 79952353333     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3551498     Document Type: Article

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