An investigation of dehazing effects on image and video coding

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 662-673

  Gibson, Kristofor B ^a   Vö, Dung T ^b   Nguyen, Truong Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAMSUNG INFORMATION SYSTEMS AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric scattering; compression artifacts; contrast enhancement; dehaze

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SCATTERING; BITRATES; CODING EFFICIENCY; COMPRESSION ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEHAZE; HALO EFFECT; IMAGE AND VIDEO CODING; TRANSMISSION PIPELINES;

CODES (SYMBOLS); IMAGE CODING; MOTION ESTIMATION; NATURAL GAS TRANSPORTATION; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

DEMULSIFICATION;

EID: 84856281979     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2166968     Document Type: Article

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