Advanced visibility improvement based on polarization filtered images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5888, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Namer, Einav ^a   Schechner, Yoav Y ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Atmospheric haze; Color; Computer vision; Image processing; Image recovery; Polarization imaging; Scattering; Turbid media

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; COMPUTER VISION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION; SCATTERING;

ATMOSPHERIC HAZE; IMAGE RECOVERY; POLARIZATION-IMAGING; TURBID MEDIA;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 29244467394     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.617464     Document Type: Conference Paper

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