Single image dehazing by multi-scale fusion

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3271-3282

  Ancuti, Codruta Orniana ^a   Ancuti, Cosmin ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

enhancing; outdoor images; Single image dehazing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA; ENHANCING; IMPORTANT FEATURES; MULTISCALE FUSION; OUTDOOR IMAGES; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; SINGLE IMAGE DEHAZING; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNIQUES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; VISIBILITY;

DEMULSIFICATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84879949852     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2013.2262284     Document Type: Article

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