Statistical analysis of signal measurement in time-of-flight cameras

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 720-731

  Mufti, Faisal ^a   Mahony, Robert ^b  

^a CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN ENGINEERING   (Pakistan)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

3D time of flight camera; Maximum likelihood; Range error analysis; SNR; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

3D IMAGING; CLOSE RANGE PHOTOGRAMMETRY; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FRAME RATE; IMAGE ARRAY; LOW SNR; MEASUREMENT PARAMETERS; NOISE CONDITIONS; NOISE MODELS; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; RANGE DATA; RANGE DATA SENSORS; RANGE ERROR; RANGE IMAGES; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SNR; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE PARAMETERS; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME-OF-FLIGHT CAMERAS;

CAMERAS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; SENSORS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE; DECADAL VARIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 80052830239     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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