New technique for the visualization of high dynamic range infrared images

Optical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Branchitta, Francesco ^a   Diani, Marco ^a   Corsini, Giovanni ^a   Romagnoli, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Selex Galileo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dynamic range compression; Image enhancement; Infrared images

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL FILTERS; CONTROL AND ADJUSTMENT; DYNAMIC RANGE; DYNAMIC RANGE COMPRESSION; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGES; IMAGE APPEARANCE; INFRARED IMAGES; IR IMAGES; TUNABLE PARAMETER; TWO-COMPONENT; VISUALIZATION METHOD;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED IMAGING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; VIDEO CAMERAS; VISUALIZATION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 70349196347     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3216575     Document Type: Conference Paper

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