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Phase imaging is widely used in biomedical imaging, sensing, and material characterization, among other fields. However, direct imaging of phase objects with subwavelength resolution remains a challenge. Here, we demonstrate subwavelength…

Polarimetric imaging enables advanced vision applications such as normal estimation and de-reflection by capturing unique surface-material interactions. However, existing applications (alternatively called downstream tasks) rely on datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yidong Luo , Chenggong Li , Yunfeng Song , Ping Wang , Boxin Shi , Junchao Zhang , Xin Yuan

Polarization-based vision has gained increasing attention for providing richer physical cues beyond RGB images. While achieving single-shot capture is highly desirable for practical applications, existing Division-of-Focal-Plane (DoFP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shuangfan Zhou , Chu Zhou , Heng Guo , Youwei Lyu , Boxin Shi , Zhanyu Ma , Imari Sato

In this work, we propose a novel method for the detailed reconstruction of transparent objects by exploiting polarimetric cues. Most of the existing methods usually lack sufficient constraints and suffer from the over-smooth problem. Hence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Mingqi Shao , Chongkun Xia , Dongxu Duan , Xueqian Wang

We demonstrate a wavefront sensor based on the compressive sensing, single-pixel camera. Using a high-resolution spatial light modulator (SLM) as a variable waveplate, we weakly couple an optical field's transverse-position and polarization…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-30 Gregory A. Howland , Daniel J. Lum , John C. Howell

Spectral imaging is a fundamental diagnostic technique with widespread application. Conventional spectral imaging approaches have intrinsic limitations on spatial and spectral resolutions due to the physical components they rely on. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-07 Figen S. Oktem , Oğuzhan Fatih Kar , Can Deniz Bezek , Farzad Kamalabadi

In diffraction imaging, one is tasked with reconstructing a signal from its power spectrum. To resolve the ambiguity in this inverse problem, one might invoke prior knowledge about the signal, but phase retrieval algorithms in this vein…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Afonso S. Bandeira , Yutong Chen , Dustin G. Mixon

A polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) system, which uses multiple images acquired with different polarizations in both transmission and reception, has the potential to improve the description and interpretation of the observed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Dehbia Hanis , Luca Pallotta , Augusto Aubry , Aichouche Belhadj-Aissa , Antonio De Maio

We describe a new polarized imaging pipeline implemented in the FHD software package. The pipeline is based on the optimal mapmaking imaging approach and performs horizon-to-horizon image reconstruction in all polarization modes. We discuss…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-19 Ruby Byrne , Miguel F. Morales , Bryna Hazelton , Ian Sullivan , Nichole Barry

Conventional microwave imaging schemes, enabled by the ubiquity of coherent sources and detectors, have traditionally relied on frequency bandwidth to retrieve range information, while using mechanical or electronic beamsteering to obtain…

Ultrathin metasurface holograms, with thicknesses comparable to the operating wavelength, leverage multiple degrees of freedom of light to address independent image channels, thereby significantly enhancing information capacity. Although…

PatchMatch Multi-View Stereo (PatchMatch MVS) is one of the popular MVS approaches, owing to its balanced accuracy and efficiency. In this paper, we propose Polarimetric PatchMatch multi-view Stereo (PolarPMS), which is the first method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jinyu Zhao , Jumpei Oishi , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

We consider the design and modeling of metasurfaces that couple energy from guided waves to propagating wavefronts. This is a first step towards a comprehensive, multiscale modeling platform for metasurface antennas-large arrays of…

In addition to its spectrum and temperature anisotropy, the 2.7K Cosmic Microwave Background is also expected to exhibit a low level of polarization. The spatial power spectrum of the polarization can provide details about the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Brian Keating , Peter Timbie , Alexander Polnarev , Julia Steinberger

Destriping is a well-established technique for removing low-frequency correlated noise from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) survey data. In this paper we present a destriping algorithm tailored to data from a polarimeter, i.e. an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-11 Andrea Zonca , Brian Williams , Peter Meinhold , Philip Lubin

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) is utilized in diverse fields ranging from physics, engineering, to biology, for transducing, sensing and processing various signals. Optical measurement of SAW provides valuable information since the amplitude…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Kotaro Taga , Ryusuke Hisatomi , Yuichi Ohnuma , Ryo Sasaki , Teruo Ono , Yasunobu Nakamura , Koji Usami

Polarized light microscopy provides unique opportunities for analyzing the molecular order in man-made and natural materials, including biological structures inside living cells, tissues, and whole organisms. 20 years ago, the LC-PolScope…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Shalin B. Mehta , Michael Shribak , Rudolf Oldenbourg

Polarizing filters provide a powerful way to separate diffuse and specular reflection; however, traditional methods rely on several captures and require proper alignment of the filters. Recently, camera manufacturers have proposed to embed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Laurent Valentin Jospin , Gilles Baechler , Adam Scholefield

Holography has emerged as a vital approach to fully engineer the wavefronts of light since its invention dating back to the last century. However, the typically large pixel size, small field of view and limited space-bandwidth impose…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-26 Lingling Huang , Shuang Zhang , Thomas Zentgraf

Polarization diversity offers a cost- and space-efficient solution to enhance the performance of integrated sensing and communication systems. Polarimetric sensing exploits the signal's polarity to extract details about the target such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Byunghyun Lee , Rang Liu , David J. Love , James V. Krogmeier , A. Lee Swindlehurst