Automatic estimation of nearshore wave height from video timestacks

Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 364-369

  Gal, Yaniv ^a   Browne, Matthew ^b   Lane, Christopher ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

digital image processing; digital video analysis; wave break zone detection; Wave detection; wave height

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ESTIMATION; DIGITAL VIDEO ANALYSIS; DIGITAL VIDEOS; GEOMETRIC RECTIFICATION; HEIGHT MEASUREMENT; IMAGE PIXELS; MEASURING METHOD; NEAR-SHORE WAVES; SHOALING WAVES; WAVE BREAK; WAVE BREAK ZONE DETECTION; WAVE DETECTION; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE HEIGHTS;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 84857000433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DICTA.2011.68     Document Type: Conference Paper

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