Reciprocal focus profile

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 459-468

  Tsai, Dong Chen ^a   Chen, Homer H ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Autofocus (AF); digital camera; focus profile; hill climbing; search strategy

Indexed keywords

AUTOFOCUS; HILL CLIMBING; IMAGE NOISE; MONOTONIC TRANSFORMATION; OUT-OF-FOCUS; POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS; SEARCH SPEED; SEARCH STRATEGIES;

DIGITAL CAMERAS;

VIDEO CAMERAS;

EID: 84863035676     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2164417     Document Type: Article

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