Recovery of surface orientation from diffuse polarization

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1653-1664

  Atkinson, Gary A ^a   Hancock, Edwin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffuse polarization; Refractive index; Sensitivity study; Surface recovery

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DIFFUSE POLARIZATION; SENSITIVITY STUDY; SURFACE RECOVERY;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 33646878047     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.871114     Document Type: Article

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