Vision and the atmosphere

ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Courses, SIGGRAPH '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Narasimhan, Srinivasa G ^a   Nayar, Shree K ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Airlight; Atmosphere; Attenuation; Bad weather; Defog; Dehaze; Fog; Haze; Overcast sky; Physics based vision; Scattering; Scene structure; Visibility

Indexed keywords

AIRLIGHT; ATMOSPHERE ATTENUATION; ATTENUATION; DEFOG; PHYSICS BASED VISION; SCENE STRUCTURE;

COLOR; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER VISION; FOG; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SCATTERING; VISIBILITY; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77049112096     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1667239.1667260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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