Implementation of an autofocus algorithm based on searching the best in-focus image into a table-top laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy setup

Optical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Novotný, Jan ^a   Malina, Radomír ^a   Kaiser, Jozef ^a   Liška, Miroslav ^a   Galiová, Michaela ^b   Novotný, Karel ^b  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

autofocus; automatic focusing; digital noise; Fourier transform; image sharpness; laser induced breakdown spectroscopy; Pearson correlation

Indexed keywords

AUTO-FOCUS; AUTOMATIC FOCUSING; DIGITAL NOISE; FOURIER; IMAGE SHARPNESS; LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN; PEARSON CORRELATION;

ALGORITHMS; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; CORRELATION METHODS; LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 80051969916     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3250206     Document Type: Article

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