Mitigation of visibility loss for advanced camera-based driver assistance

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 474-484

  Hautière, Nicolas ^a   Tarel, Jean Philippe ^a   Aubert, Didier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^b Gustave Eiffel University   (France)

Author keywords

Advanced driver assistance systems; Contrast restoration; Fog removal; Real time image processing

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED DRIVER-ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS; ADVERSE WEATHER; CONTRAST OF IMAGE; CONTRAST RESTORATION; CURRENT DRIVERS; DRIVER ASSISTANCE; DRIVER-ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS; FIXED CAMERAS; FREE SPACE; IN-VEHICLE; LOW-LEVEL ALGORITHMS; MOVING VEHICLES; REAL-TIME IMAGE PROCESSING; RESTORATION PROCESS; SCENE STRUCTURE; VISIBILITY LEVEL; VISIBILITY LOSS; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISION SYSTEMS; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WEATHER EFFECT;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; CAMERAS; FOG; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGY; RESTORATION; ROADS AND STREETS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; VISIBILITY;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953117707     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2010.2046165     Document Type: Article

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