Research of the Evaluation Function Based on Improved Neighborhood Difference Operator

Automatic focusing is one of the key technology of robot vision and digital video-systems, while play an important role in determining the quality of image. The performance of focusing depends on whether the evaluation function has unbiasedness, unimodality and noise resistance. This paper proposes a new evaluation function algorithm by improving image clarity-evaluation function of the traditional neighborhood difference operator. Compared with the existing algorithm, the results of experiments demonstrated the new algorithm has a good sensitivity, timeliness, good anti-noise ability and stability during the automatic focusing process.