Polarization Mosaicking: High dynamic range and polarization imaging in a wide field of view

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5158, Issue , 2003, Pages 93-102

  Schechner, Yoav Y ^a   Nayar, Shree K ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; High dynamic range; Image enhancement; Image mosaicing; Mosaicking; Optical filtering; Panorama; Polarization; Reflection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; CAMERAS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT REFLECTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING;

HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; IMAGE MOSAICING; MOSAICKING; OPTICAL FILTERING; PANORAMA;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 1842531490     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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