A confidence-based approach to enhancing underwater acoustic image formation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 270-285

  Murino, Vittorio ^a,b   Trucco, Andrea ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic imaging; Image enhancement; Image generation; Underwater acoustics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC IMAGING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

CONFIDENCE-BASED APPROACH;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0033078070     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.743860     Document Type: Article

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