Enhancing images in scattering media utilizing stereovision and polarization

2009 Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sarafraz, Amin ^a   Negahdaripour, Shahriar ^a   Schechner, Yoav Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINOCULAR STEREO; DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; DISTANCE COMPUTATION; DISTANCE MAP; DYNAMIC SCENES; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINT; LIGHT LEVEL; POLARIZATION ANALYSIS; RAW IMAGES; SCATTERING EFFECTS; SCATTERING MEDIA; SINGLE CAMERAS; STEREO DISPARITY;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER VISION; POLARIZATION; STEREO VISION; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

SCATTERING;

EID: 77951173967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2009.5403034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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