Depth from Scattering - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Depth from Scattering

Fabio Cozman and Eric Krotkov
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 801 - 806, June, 1997
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Abstract

Light power is affected when it crosses the atmosphere; there is a simple, albeit non-linear, relationship between the radiance of an image at any given wavelength and the distance between object and viewer. This phenomenon is called atmospheric scattering and has been extensively studied by physicists and meterologists. We present the first analysis of this phenomenon from an image understanding perspective: we investigate a group of techniques for extraction of depth cues solely from the analysis of atmospheric scattering effects in images. Depth from scattering techniques are discussed for indoor and outdoor environments, and experimental tests with real images are presented. We have found that depth cues in outdoor scenes can be recovered with surpr is in g accuracy and can be used as an additional information source for autonomous vehicles.

BibTeX

@conference{Cozman-1997-14392,
author = {Fabio Cozman and Eric Krotkov},
title = {Depth from Scattering},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
year = {1997},
month = {June},
pages = {801 - 806},
}
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