Clear underwater vision

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Schechner, Yoav Y ^a   Karpel, Nir ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; HIGH PASS FILTERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHOTOGRAPHY;

IMAGE DEGRADATION; NATURAL ILLUMINATION; UNDERWATER VISION;

UNDERWATER IMAGING;

EID: 5044239495     PISSN: 10636919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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