Haze effect removal from image via haze density estimation in optical model

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 27127-27141

  Yeh, Chia Hung ^a   Kang, Li Wei ^b   Lee, Ming Sui ^c   Lin, Cheng Yang ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIXELS;

BILATERAL FILTERS; DARK CHANNEL PRIORS; DENSITY ESTIMATION; HIGH QUALITY; IMAGE PRIORS; OPTICAL MODELING; OUTDOOR SCENES; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH;

DEMULSIFICATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84887435378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.027127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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