Opti-acoustic stereo imaging: On system calibration and 3-D target reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1203-1214

  Negahdaripour, Shahriar ^a   Sekkati, Hicham ^a   Pirsiavash, Hamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D reconstruction; Sensor integration; Stereovision; Underwater sonar imaging

Indexed keywords

3-D RECONSTRUCTION; 3-D SHAPE; ACOUSTIC CAMERA; ACOUSTIC IMAGES; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; CONIC SECTIONS; EPIPOLAR GEOMETRY; INITIAL CONDITIONS; NOISY IMAGE; RANGE MEASUREMENTS; SCENE RECONSTRUCTION; SENSOR INTEGRATION; STEREO IMAGING; SYNTHETIC DATA; SYSTEM CALIBRATION; TARGET IMAGING; UNDERWATER SONAR IMAGING; UNDERWATER TARGET;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; BIREFRINGENCE; CALIBRATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RESTORATION; SENSORS; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; SONAR; TARGETS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; UNDERWATER IMAGING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 67349263451     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2013081     Document Type: Article

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