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In recent years, handheld and portable terahertz instruments have been in rapid development for various applications ranging from non-destructive testing to biomedical imaging and sensing. For instance, we have deployed our Portable…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-22 Zachery B. Harris , Kuangyi Xu , M. Hassan Arbab

A technique based on speckle contrast measurement is proposed and demonstrated to track the polarization rotation of an optical beam behind a scattering layer. It is shown that with the help of a reference speckle pattern with a known…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-03 Abhijit Roy , Rakesh Kumar Singh , Maruthi M. Brundavanam

Most image-search approaches today are based on the text based tags associated with the images which are mostly human generated and are subject to various kinds of errors. The results of a query to the image database thus can often be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-08-03 Ankit Garg , Rahul Dwivedi , Krishna Asawa

Following the great success of curriculum learning in the area of machine learning, a novel deep curriculum learning method proposed in this paper, entitled DCL, particularly for the classification of fully polarimetric synthetic aperture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Hamidreza Mousavi , Maryam Imani , Hassan Ghassemian

In the last few years, large improvements in image clustering have been driven by the recent advances in deep learning. However, due to the architectural complexity of deep neural networks, there is no mathematical theory that explains the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Angel Villar-Corrales , Veniamin I. Morgenshtern

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

Optical neural networks are emerging as a powerful and versatile tool for processing optical signals directly in the optical domain with superior speed, integrability, and functionality. Their application to optical polarization enables…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-24 Alessandro Petrini , Claudio Conti , Davide Pierangeli

We review the tools and procedures for the analysis of the data collected by X-ray photoelectric gas polarimeters, like the ones on-board the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). Although many of such tools are in principle common…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Fabio Muleri

Holography is a cornerstone characterisation and imaging technique that can be applied to the full electromagnetic spectrum, from X-rays to radio waves or even particles such as neutrons. The key property in all these holographic approaches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Hugo Defienne , Bienvenu Ndagano , Ashley Lyons , Daniele Faccio

Advancements in Sonar image capture have enabled researchers to apply sophisticated object identification algorithms in order to locate targets of interest in images such as mines. Despite progress in this field, modern sonar automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-05 John McKay , Raghu Raj , Vishal Monga , Jason Isaacs

Polarimetric SAR data has the characteristics of all-weather, all-time and so on, which is widely used in many fields. However, the data of annotation is relatively small, which is not conducive to our research. In this paper, we have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Xu Liu , Licheng Jiao , Fang Liu

Light passing through scattering media will be strongly scattered and diffused into complex speckle pattern, which contains almost all the spatial information and spectral information of the objects. Although various methods have been…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-04 Lei Zhu , Jietao Liu , Lei Feng , Chengfei Guo , Tengfei Wu , Xiaopeng Shao

Automated 3D pose estimation of satellites and other known space objects is a critical component of space situational awareness. Ground-based imagery offers a convenient data source for satellite characterization; however, analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Maxim Bazik , Brien Flewelling , Manoranjan Majji , Joseph Mundy

We present a novel Bayesian model and a corresponding robust, probabilistic calibration procedure for the CORSAIR polarimeter that can be applied to other polarimeters. Our calibration procedure combines existing Mueller matrix…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Alan Hsu , Jenna Samra , Steven Tomczyk , Maxim Kramar

Polarized light microscopy provides high contrast to birefringent specimen and is widely used as a diagnostic tool in pathology. However, polarization microscopy systems typically operate by analyzing images collected from two or more light…

Neural implicit surface reconstruction has achieved remarkable progress recently. Despite resorting to complex radiance modeling, state-of-the-art methods still struggle with textureless and specular surfaces. Different from RGB images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Guangcheng Chen , Yicheng He , Li He , Hong Zhang

This article aims to provide a brief overview of both established and novel ellipsometry techniques, as well as their applications. Ellipsometry is an indirect optical technique in that information about the physical properties of a sample…

Snapshot polarization imaging calculates polarization states from linearly polarized subimages. To achieve this, a polarization camera employs a double Bayer-patterned sensor to capture both color and polarization. It demonstrates low light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Inseung Hwang , Kiseok Choi , Hyunho Ha , Min H. Kim

Modeling the propagation of light through disordered media is central to understanding and controlling wave transport in diverse optical and mesoscopic applications. Here, we present a random matrix simulation framework for modeling the…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-24 Niall Byrnes , Sulagna Dutta , Matthew R. Foreman

We review the algebraic definition of the efficiency of a polarization modulation scheme, which is commonly adopted for solar and stellar spectro-polarimetry applications, and generalize it to allow distinct states of the modulation cycle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Roberto Casini , David M. Harrington , Alfred G. de Wijn