Skyless Polarimetric calibration and visibility enhancement

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 472-493

  Namer, Einav ^a   Shwartz, Sarit ^a   Schechner, Yoav Y ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION; VISIBILITY;

BLIND ESTIMATIONS; DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; FILTERED IMAGES; HAZE PARTICLES; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS(ICA); POLARIMETRIC CALIBRATION; POOR VISIBILITY; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 58649102449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000472     Document Type: Article

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