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Linear (spectro) polarimetry is usually performed using separate photon flux measurements after spatial or temporal polarization modulation. Such classical polarimeters are limited in sensitivity and accuracy by systematic effects and…

Optics · Physics 2010-05-28 Frans Snik , Theodora Karalidi , Christoph U. Keller

A Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) sensor is able to collect images in different polarization states, making it a rich source of information for target characterization. PolSAR images are inherently affected by speckle.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Adugna G. Mullissa , Claudio Persello , Johannes Reiche

A satellite image is a remotely sensed image data, where each pixel represents a specific location on earth. The pixel value recorded is the reflection radiation from the earth's surface at that location. Multispectral images are those that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Purbarag Pathak Choudhury , Ujjal Kr Dutta , Dhruba Kr Bhattacharyya

We present two backscattering polarimetric scanning setups based on point-illumination schemes, that are designed to probe the optical properties of subsurface media. We describe their advantages and limitations, characterize their…

Vision foundation models in remote sensing have been extensively studied due to their superior generalization on various downstream tasks. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) offers all-day, all-weather imaging capabilities, providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Mengyu Wang , Hanbo Bi , Yingchao Feng , Linlin Xin , Shuo Gong , Tianqi Wang , Zhiyuan Yan , Peijin Wang , Wenhui Diao , Xian Sun

In this paper we present a differential approach to photo-polarimetric shape estimation. We propose several alternative differential constraints based on polarisation and photometric shading information and show how to express them in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Silvia Tozza , William A. P. Smith , Dizhong Zhu , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Edwin R. Hancock

Polarimetric imaging can provide valuable information about biological samples in a wide range of applications. Detrimental scattering however currently limits the imaging depth of in-vivo imaging to approximately 1 transport mean free…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-28 Kai Ling C. Seow , Peter Török , Matthew R. Foreman

Speckle suppression in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is a key processing step which continues to be a research topic. A wide variety of methods, using either spatially-based approaches or transform-based strategies, have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Alejandro Mestre-Quereda , Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez

Dictionary learning and sparse coding have been widely studied as mechanisms for unsupervised feature learning. Unsupervised learning could bring enormous benefit to the processing of hyperspectral images and to other remote sensing data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Joshua Bruton , Hairong Wang

Deep learning is an effective end-to-end method for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar(PolSAR) image classification, but it lacks the guidance of related mathematical principle and is essentially a black-box model. In addition, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Junfei Shi , Mengmeng Nie , Weisi Lin , Haiyan Jin , Junhuai Li , Rui Wang

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

Multiple optical scattering occurs when light propagates in a non-uniform medium. During the multiple scattering, images were distorted and the spatial information they carried became scrambled. However, the image information is not lost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Xinyu Gao , Yi Li , Yanqing Qiu , Bangning Mao , Miaogen Chen , Yanlong Meng , Chunliu Zhao , Juan Kang , Yong Guo , Changyu Shen

This paper is concerned with polarimetric dense map reconstruction based on a polarization camera with the help of relative depth information as a prior. In general, polarization imaging is able to reveal information about surface normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Moein Shakeri , Shing Yan Loo , Hong Zhang

Accurate segmentation of floating debris on water is often compromised by surface glare and changing outdoor illumination. Polarimetric imaging offers a single-sensor route to mitigate water-surface glare that disrupts semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Luis F. W. Batista , Tom Bourbon , Cedric Pradalier

Reflection removal is challenging due to complex light interactions, where reflections obscure important details and hinder scene understanding. Polarization naturally provides a powerful cue to distinguish between reflected and transmitted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Mingde Yao , Menglu Wang , King-Man Tam , Lingen Li , Tianfan Xue , Jinwei Gu

6D pose estimation pipelines that rely on RGB-only or RGB-D data show limitations for photometrically challenging objects with e.g. textureless surfaces, reflections or transparency. A supervised learning-based method utilising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Patrick Ruhkamp , Daoyi Gao , HyunJun Jung , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

Recently, deep learning methods have achieved superior performance for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar(PolSAR) image classification. Existing deep learning methods learn PolSAR data by converting the covariance matrix into a feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Junfei Shi , Wei Wang , Haiyan Jin , Mengmeng Nie , Shanshan Ji

The recent development of the on-chip micro-polarizer technology has made it possible to acquire four spatially aligned and temporally synchronized polarization images with the same ease of operation as a conventional camera. In this paper,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Juiwen Ting , Xuesong Wu , Kangkang Hu , Hong Zhang

Image datasets are essential not only in validating existing methods in computer vision but also in developing new methods. Most existing image datasets focus on trichromatic intensity images to mimic human vision. However, polarization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yujin Jeon , Eunsue Choi , Youngchan Kim , Yunseong Moon , Khalid Omer , Felix Heide , Seung-Hwan Baek

Optical image data have been used by the Remote Sensing workforce to study land use and cover since such data is easily interpretable. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has the characteristic of obtaining images during all-day, all-weather and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Battula Balnarsaiah , G Rajitha