A Normalized Absolute Values Adaptive Evaluation Function of Image Clarity

The clarity evaluation function plays a vital role in the autofocus technique. The accuracy and efficiency of the image clarity evaluation function directly affects the accuracy of autofocus and the speed of focusing. However, classical clarity function values are sensitive to changes in background...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2023-11, Vol.23 (22), p.9017
Main Authors: Wang, Xiaoyi, Yao, Tianyang, Liu, Mingkang, Zheng, Kunlei, Zhao, Chengxiang, Xiao, Longyuan, Zhu, Dongjie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
adaptive background brightness
clarity evaluation
Efficiency
Fourier transforms
Informatics
Neural networks
normalized absolute value
visual measurement
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Summary:The clarity evaluation function plays a vital role in the autofocus technique. The accuracy and efficiency of the image clarity evaluation function directly affects the accuracy of autofocus and the speed of focusing. However, classical clarity function values are sensitive to changes in background brightness and changes in object contour length. This paper proposes a normalized absolute values adaptive (NAVA) evaluation function of image clarity. It can eliminate the influence of changes in background brightness and the length of the measured object contour on the image clarity function value. To verify the effectiveness of the NAVA function, several experiments were conducted under conditions of virtual master gear images and actual captured images. For actual captured images, the variation of the evaluation results of the NAVA function is far less than the corresponding variation of the classic clarity function. Compared with classical clarity evaluation functions, the NAVA function can provide normalized absolute clarity values. The correlations between the NAVA function results of image clarity and both the contour length and background brightness of the tested object are weak. The use of the NAVA function in automatic and manual focusing systems can further improve focusing efficiency.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s23229017