Optimal defocus estimation in individual natural images

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 40, 2011, Pages 16849-16854

  Burge, Johannes ^a   Geisler, Wilson S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Auto focus; Bayesian statistics; Depth perception; Optics; Sensor sampling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENT; EYE REFRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REFRACTIVE DEFOCUS ESTIMATION; RETINA IMAGE; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISION, OCULAR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80053652492     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108491108     Document Type: Article

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