Experimental Verification of the Parallax-Shift Method for Determining Height Differences of Fuel Assembly Heads from a Series of Television Images

parallax shift, quasi-stereo pair, television image, video stream, subpixel localization, Hough transform, fuel assembly heads, non-contact measurements

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