Towards fog-free in-vehicle vision systems through contrast restoration

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hautière, Nicolas ^a   Tarel, Jean Philippe ^a   Aubert, Didier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

^b Gustave Eiffel University   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FIXED CAMERA SURVEILLANCE; IN-VEHICLE CAMERAS; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 34948830132     PISSN: 10636919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2007.383259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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