Polarization: Beneficial for visibility enhancement?

2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 525-532

  Treibitz, Tali ^a   Schechner, Yoav Y ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DEMULSIFICATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLARIZATION; VISIBILITY;

ACQUISITION TIME; AIRLIGHT; DEHAZING; PATH RADIANCE; SCATTERING MEDIA; SIGNAL DISCRIMINATION; SINGLE FRAMES;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 70450169897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW.2009.5206551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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