Generation of all-in-focus images by noise-robust selective fusion of limited depth-of-field images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1242-1251

  Pertuz, Said ^a   Puig, Domenec ^a   Garcia, Miguel Angel ^b   Fusiello, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

All in focus; extended depth of field; focus measure; image fusion

Indexed keywords

ALL-IN-FOCUS; ALL-IN-FOCUS IMAGE; CAMERA SETTINGS; DEPTH OF FIELD; DISTANCE RANGES; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD; FOCUS MEASURE; FUSION PROCESS; IMAGE FEATURES; LOW DEPTH OF FIELD; SEQUENCE OF IMAGES; SPATIAL FREQUENCY;

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS;

IMAGE FUSION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873381643     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2012.2231087     Document Type: Article

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