Contrast restoration of weather degraded images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 713-724

  Narasimhan, Srinivasa G ^a   Nayar, Shree K ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Airtight; Atmosphere; Attenuation; Bad weather; Contrast restoration; Defog; Dehaze; Fog; Haze; Overcast sky; Physics based vision; Scattering; Scene reconstruction; Scene structure; Shape from weather; Shape from X; Visibility

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED IMAGING;

WEATHER CONDITIONS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0037705564     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2003.1201821     Document Type: Article

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