Sensitivity analysis of aerosol parameter (refractive index which consists of real and imaginary parts, size distribution which is represented by Junge parameter) estimations with measured solar direct and diffuse irradiance is made. Through experiments with the measured solar direct and diffuse irradiance, it is found that the results from the sensitivity analysis is valid and adequate. Keywor...

We present a method for generating linearized images that consist of only diffuse reflection from images taken under near point light sources. Previous photometric linearization method cannot work under near point light sources, since it assumes parallel light. For satisfying this assumption, our method utilizes a photometric linearization method by dividing images into small regions. It also s...

The reflectance of inhomogeneous objects can be described as a linear combination of diffuse and specular reflection components. Most computer vision algorithms assume that visually observable surfaces consist only of diffuse reflection. The existence of specular reflection can be misleading to these computer vision algorithms. A new algorithm dark channel prior based specularity removal is pro...

After the development of a very common formalism for neutron three beam cases, a detailed investigation is given for the case (111, 111/220) and a comparisation with the (different) case (111, 111/200) is presented. It is shown that the former case behaves different by concerning dispersion branches and reflection curves; both are asymmetric in respect to a wave incident in the exact Bragg dire...

When unpolarised light is reflected from a smooth dielectric surface, it is spontaneously partially polarised. This process applies to both specular and diffuse reflection, although the effect is greatest for specular reflection. This paper is concerned with exploiting this phenomenon by processing images of smooth dielectric objects to recover surface normals and hence height. The paper presen...

In this paper, we propose a method for cataract screening. Referring to the fact of increasing number of cataract especially for the people who lived in the developing countries, this kind of discussion will be important. The method used three kinds of features; specular reflection appearance, texture uniformity and average intensity inside the pupil. Actually, The core of our method is based o...

Diffuse reflections have received increasing attention in architectural acoustics over the past quarter century. The term diffuse refers to non-specular directions. This paper identifies three mechanisms that cause diffuse reflections. Practitioners have found that changing specular reflections into diffuse reflections can reduce noise and echoes both indoors and outdoors. Developers of acousti...

Diffuse interstellar clouds have long been thought to be relatively devoid of molecules, because of their low densities and high radiation fields. However, in the past ten years or so, a plethora of polyatomic molecules have been observed in diffuse clouds, via their rotational, vibrational, and electronic transitions. In this review, we propose a new systematic classification method for the di...