Image transmission through incoherent optical fiber bundle: Methods for optimization and image quality improvement

WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 531-541

  Demuynck, O ^a   Menendez J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Calibration; Hazardous environment; Image transmission; Incoherent optical fiber bundle

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; CORUNDUM; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FIBER OPTICS; HARDWARE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LOW PASS FILTERS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; PETROLEUM REFINING; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

ARMOR PLATINGS; ARTIFICIAL VISIONS; CALIBRATION METHODS; CORROSIVE ENVIRONMENTS; DENOISING METHODS; DUST ENVIRONMENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCES; EXPLOSIVE GASSES; EXTREME CONDITIONS; FIBER MATERIALS; G ACCELERATIONS; HARDWARE SOLUTIONS; HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURES; IMAGE CONTRASTS; IMAGE QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS; IMAGE TRANSMISSION; INCOHERENT OPTICAL FIBER BUNDLE; INDUSTRIAL AREAS; INPUT PLANES; LOW PASSES; OPTICAL ABERRATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESSING; SAPPHIRE FIBERS; SMOOTH FILTERS;

FIBERS;

EID: 58249119663     PISSN: 17905022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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