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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

Thermal imaging and sensing technologies offer critical information about our thermally radiant world, and in recent years, have seen dramatic increases in usage for a range of applications. However, the cost and technical finesse of…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-29 Jyotirmoy Mandal , John Brewer , Sagar Mandal , Aaswath P. Raman

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

A division-of-focal-plane (DoFP) polarimeter enables us to acquire images with multiple polarization orientations in one shot and thus it is valuable for many applications using polarimetric information. The image processing pipeline for a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Muhamad Daniel Ariff Bin Abdul Rahman , Yusuke Monno , Masayuki Tanaka , Masatoshi Okutomi

Time of Flight ToF cameras renowned for their ability to capture realtime 3D information have become indispensable for agile mobile robotics These cameras utilize light signals to accurately measure distances enabling robots to navigate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Yuke Cai , Davide Plozza , Steven Marty , Paul Joseph , Michele Magno

The acquisition of objects outside the Line-of-Sight of cameras is a very intriguing but also extremely challenging research topic. Recent works showed the feasibility of this idea exploiting transient imaging data produced by custom direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Matteo Caligiuri , Adriano Simonetto , Pietro Zanuttigh

Medical ultrasound provides images which are the spatial map of the tissue echogenicity. Unfortunately, an ultrasound image is a low-quality version of the expected Tissue Reflectivity Function (TRF) mainly due to the non-ideal Point Spread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Sobhan Goudarzi , Hassan Rivaz

Indirect Time-of-Flight cameras (iToF) are low-cost devices that provide depth images at an interactive frame rate. However, they are affected by different error sources, with the spotlight taken by Multi-Path Interference (MPI), a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Adriano Simonetto , Gianluca Agresti , Pietro Zanuttigh , Henrik Schäfer

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

Can we capture shape and reflectance in stealth? Such capability would be valuable for many application domains in vision, xR, robotics, and HCI. We introduce structured polarization for invisible depth and reflectance sensing (SPIDeRS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Tomoki Ichikawa , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

The translation of imaging Mueller polarimetry to clinical practice is often hindered by large footprint and relatively slow acquisition speed of the existing instruments. Using polarization-sensitive camera as a detector may reduce…

Context: Polarimetry is a very powerful tool to uncover various properties of astronomical objects that remain otherwise hidden in standard imaging or spectroscopic observations. However, the reliable measurement of the low polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 S. González-Gaitán , A. M. Mourão , F. Patat , J. P. Anderson , A. Cikota , K. Wiersema , A. B. Higgins , K. Silva

Multi-focus image fusion is a technique for obtaining an all-in-focus image in which all objects are in focus to extend the limited depth of field (DoF) of an imaging system. Different from traditional RGB-based methods, this paper presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Hang Liu , Hengyu Li , Jun Luo , Shaorong Xie , Yu Sun

Polarimetric imaging has a wide range of applications for uncovering features invisible to human eyes and conventional imaging sensors. Compact, fast, cost-effective and accurate full-Stokes polarimetric imaging sensors are highly desirable…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-21 Jiawei Zuo , Jing Bai , Shinhyuk Choi , Ali Basiri , Xiahui Chen , Chao Wang , Yu Yao

In turbid media, scattering of light scrambles information of the incident beam and represents an obstacle to optical imaging. Noninvasive imaging through opaque layers is challenging for dynamic and wide-field objects due to unreliable…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-17 Yuan Yuan , Hui Chen

Polarization information of the light can provide rich cues for computer vision and scene understanding tasks, such as the type of material, pose, and shape of the objects. With the advent of new and cheap polarimetric sensors, this imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Joaquin Rodriguez , Lew-Fock-Chong Lew-Yan-Voon , Renato Martins , Olivier Morel

Polarimetric imaging aims to recover polarimetric parameters, including Total Intensity (TI), Degree of Polarization (DoP), and Angle of Polarization (AoP), from captured polarized measurements. In real-world scenarios, these measurements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Chu Zhou , Yufei Han , Junda Liao , Linrui Dai , Wangze Xu , Art Subpa-Asa , Heng Guo , Boxin Shi , Imari Sato

Division-of-focal-plane (DoFP) polarization imaging technical recently has been applied in many fields. However, the images captured by such sensors cannot be used directly because they suffer from instantaneous field-of-view errors and low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-27 Rongyuan Wu , Yongqiang Zhao , Ning Li , Seong G. Kong

The use of precise time-of-flight (ToF) detectors for measurements of diffractive and electromagnetic processes in proton-proton collisions is discussed. The performance of background rejection exploiting the ToF measurements of the forward…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-26 Rafał Staszewski , Janusz J. Chwastowski

While Fourier ptychography (FP) offers super-resolution for macroscopic imaging, its real-world application is severely hampered by atmospheric turbulence, a challenge largely unaddressed in existing macroscopic FP research operating under…