High-resolution Depth and Reflectance Map Estimation in Underwater Imaging

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• Keywords: Underwater Imaging, Depth Map

@techreport\{Neum04Hig,
  title =      "High-resolution Depth and Reflectance Map Estimation in
               Underwater Imaging",
  author =     "Laszlo Neumann and Rafael Garcia and Jordi Ferrer and Attila
               Neumann",
  year =       "2004",
  abstract =   "This paper describes  a novel technique to simultaneously
               determining the threedimensional geometry and reflectance
               map of a scene in underwater imaging. Underwater light is
               affected by an exponential wavelenght-dependent absorption
               and undesired scattering effects. These special conditions
               make image and video processing a difficult task in
               participating media. It is shown how to use this disturbing
               absorption effect to find a new way to accurately estimate
               the scene depth-map and multispectral reflectivities. The
               process requires the acquisition of a multispectral image of
               the underwater scenario with the appropriate camera and
               lightsource arrangement. The algorithm has been tested on
               several synthetic images for different noise levels. The
               promising results show that the technique provides accurate
               and stable results.",
  address =    "Favoritenstrasse 9-11/186, A-1040 Vienna, Austria",
  institution = "Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna
               University of Technology",
  note =       "human contact: technical-report@cg.tuwien.ac.at",
  month =      dec,
  number =     "TR-186-2-04-14",
  keywords =   "Underwater Imaging, Depth Map",
  URL =        "http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2004/Neum04Hig/",
}