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Range from out of focus blur

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AI '88 (AI 1988)

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Computer Vision researchers are ever on the look-out for new ways of acquiring range data for subsequent structural scene analysis. This paper presents some preliminary results concerning the measurement of blur as the basis of a monocular and computationally simple ranging method which exploits depth of focus variations with aperture and distance.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, 3168, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

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Christopher J. Barter Michael J. Brooks

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Jarvis, R.A. (1990). Range from out of focus blur. In: Barter, C.J., Brooks, M.J. (eds) AI '88. AI 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 406. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-52062-7_89

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