Contrast enhancement of underwater images with coherent optical image processors

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 817-825

  Christie, S M ^a   Kvasnik, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Matched filtering; Optical image processing; Underwater vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000926620     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.000817     Document Type: Article

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