Multispectral polarimetric imaging with coherent illumination : Towards higher image contrast

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5432, Issue , 2004, Pages 133-144

  Alouini, Mehdi ^a   Goudail, François ^b   Réfrégier, Philippe ^b   Grisard, Arnaud ^a   Lallier, Eric ^a   Dolfi, Daniel ^a  

^a THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Active imaging; Low contrast; Multispectral; Noise; Polarization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHTING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE IMAGING; LOW CONTRAST; MULTISPECTRAL; NOISE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 8844219767     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.543620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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