Estimating meteorological visibility using cameras: A probabilistic model-driven approach

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6495 LNCS, Issue PART 4, 2011, Pages 243-254

  Hautiére, Nicolas ^a   Babari, Raouf ^a   Dumont, Éric ^a   Brémond, Roland ^a   Paparoditis, Nicolas ^b  

^a Gustave Eiffel University   (France)

^b INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; EXISTING METHOD; GROUND TRUTH DATA; HOLISTIC APPROACH; ILLUMINATION VARIATION; LAMBERTIAN SURFACES; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; TRANSPORT SAFETY; VISION COMMUNITIES; VISUAL RANGE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CAMERAS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; VISIBILITY;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 79952491455     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19282-1_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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