A probabilistic approach to the coupled reconstruction and restoration of underwater acoustic images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-22

  Murino, Vittorio ^a   Trucco, Andrea ^b   Regazzoni, Carlo S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Confidence based approach; Markov random fields; Physics based vision; Reconstruction; Restoration; Underwater acoustic imaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

BEAMFORMING; SINGLE ENERGY FUNCTION; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

EID: 0031648527     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.655646     Document Type: Article

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