Recovering scenes by polarization analysis

Ocean '04 - MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04: Bridges across the Oceans - Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1255-1261

  Schechner, Yoav Y ^a   Karpel, Nir ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTION; UNDERWATER IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC ANTENNAS; OPTICAL UNDERWATER IMAGING; POLARIZATION ANALYSIS; SPECKLE NOISE;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 19644389667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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