Separation and contrast enhancement of overlapping cast shadow components using polarization

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 7099-7108

  Lin, Shih Schön ^a   Yemelyanov, Konstantin M ^a   Pugh Jr , Edward N ^b   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SOURCES; TRACKING (POSITION);

MULTIPLE LIGHT SOURCES; MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS; NATURAL SCENES; SHADOW REGION IDENTIFICATION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; VISUAL ILLUSION;

COLOR PERCEPTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS;

EID: 33746871091     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007099     Document Type: Article

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