학술논문

SOFI: A 3D simulator for the generation of underwater optical images
Document Type
Conference
Source
OCEANS 2011 IEEE - Spain OCEANS, 2011 IEEE - Spain. :1-6 Jun, 2011
Subject
Geoscience
General Topics for Engineers
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Graphics processing unit
Atmospheric modeling
Optical imaging
Image generation
Computational modeling
Optical scattering
simulator
GPU
GPGPU
underwater
radiative transfer
image modeling
Language
Abstract
We present an original simulator - called SOFI - for the synthetic generation of underwater optical images. The simulator architecture is flexible and relies on flow diagrams in order to allow the integration of various models for image generation which are based on the underwater optical phenomena. The objective is also to ensure real time or quasi real time performance so it takes advantage of the latest technologies, such as GPGPU, and relies on GPU programming under CUDA. Two kinds of models for image generation are presented and should be integrated in SOFI: (1) the OSOA model based on the radiative transfer theory and (2) global image modeling which describes globally how an image is deteriorated under the effects of sea water.