Estimating sunlight polarization using a fish-eye lens

IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 288-300

  Miyazaki, Daisuke ^a,b   Ammar, Mahdi ^a,c   Kawakami, Rei ^a   Ikeuchi, Katsushi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELESTIAL POLARIZATION; FISH-EYE LENS; LINEAR POLARIZER; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; OTHER APPLICATIONS; OUTDOOR SCENES; OVERCAST SKIES; POLARIZATION PATTERNS; POLARIZED STATE; RAYLEIGH MODELS; ROBOT NAVIGATION; SENSOR PLANNING; SINGLE SCATTERING;

CAMERAS; CCD CAMERAS; NAVIGATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 78651444342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18826695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2197/ipsjtcva.1.288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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