Single-image vignetting correction from gradient distribution symmetries

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1480-1494

  Zheng, Yuanjie ^a   Lin, Stephen ^b   Kang, Sing Bing ^c   Xiao, Rui ^a   Gee, James C ^a   Kambhamettu, Chandra ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

^d University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Camera calibration; Low level vision; Nonuniformity correction; Vignetting correction

Indexed keywords

BIAS CORRECTION; CAMERA CALIBRATION; GRADIENT DISTRIBUTIONS; LOW-LEVEL VISION; NONUNIFORMITY CORRECTION; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; SYMMETRY PROPERTIES; TANGENTIAL DIRECTIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER VISION;

PIXELS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84884994064     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2012.210     Document Type: Article

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