Electronic imaging aids for night driving: Low-light CCD, uncooled thermal IR, and color-fused visible/LWIR

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2902, Issue , 1997, Pages 62-73

  Waxman, Allen M ^a   Savoye, Eugene D ^a   Fay, David A ^a   Aguilar, Mario ^a   Gove, Alan N ^a   Carrick, James E ^a   Racamato, Joseph P ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color vision; Image fusion; Low light CCD; Night driving; Night vision; Thermal IR

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COLOR; COLOR VISION; DATA FUSION; DIGITAL CAMERAS; IMAGE FUSION; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSORS; VISION;

CCD IMAGERS; CIVILIAN APPLICATIONS; COLOR DISPLAYS; DEFENSE APPLICATIONS; DYNAMIC RANGES; ELECTRONIC IMAGING; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; IR IMAGERIES; LOW-LIGHT CCD; NIGHT DRIVING; NIGHT VISION; REAL TIMES; REALTIME PROCESSING; SITUATIONAL AWARENESSES; THERMAL IR; UNCOOLED; VIDEO RATES; VISIBLE IMAGERIES; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGES;

VISION AIDS;

EID: 0003366704     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.267163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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