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Reliable position and attitude sensing is critical for highly automated vehicles that operate on conventional roadways. Lidar sensors are increasingly incorporated into pose-estimation systems. Despite its great utility, lidar is a complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jason H. Rife , Yifan Li

The Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-Optical Reconnaissance (SPIDER) is an optical interferometric imaging device that aims to offer an alternative to the large space telescope designs of today with reduced size, weight and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Matthijs Mars , Marta M. Betcke , Jason D. McEwen

Real-time light detection and ranging (LiDAR) perceptions, e.g., 3D object detection and simultaneous localization and mapping are computationally intensive to mobile devices of limited resources and often offloaded on the edge. Offloading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Jin Heo , Gregorie Phillips , Per-Erik Brodin , Ada Gavrilovska

This work presents a comprehensive examination of the use of information theory for understanding Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images by means of contrast measures that can be used as test statistics. Due to the phenomenon…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-02-11 A. C. Frery , A. D. C. Nascimento , R. J. Cintra

Imaging polarimetry allows more information to be extracted from a scene than conventional intensity or colour imaging. However, a major challenge of imaging polarimetry is image degradation due to noise. This paper investigates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Alexander B. Tibbs , Ilse M. Daly , Nicholas W. Roberts , David R. Bull

In the existing methods, LiDAR odometry shows superior performance, but visual odometry is still widely used for its price advantage. Conventionally, the task of visual odometry mainly rely on the input of continuous images. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Huiying Deng , Guangming Wang , Zhiheng Feng , Chaokang Jiang , Xinrui Wu , Yanzi Miao , Hesheng Wang

The ideal imaging system would efficiently capture information about all fundamental properties light: intensity, direction, wavelength, and polarization. Most common imaging systems only map the spatial degrees of freedom of light onto a…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-26 Conner Ballew , Gregory Roberts , Andrei Faraon

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

We present an analytic model for simulating automotive time-of-flight (ToF) LiDAR that includes blooming, echo pulse width, and ambient light, along with steps to determine model parameters systematically through optical laboratory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 L. Dudzik , M. Roschani , A. Sielemann , K. Trampert , J. Ziehn , J. Beyerer , C. Neumann

Over the past decade, lidars have become a cornerstone of robotics state estimation and perception thanks to their ability to provide accurate geometric information about their surroundings in the form of 3D scans. Unfortunately, most of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Cedric Le Gentil , Raphael Falque , Teresa Vidal-Calleja

This paper addresses the problem of dense depth predictions from sparse distance sensor data and a single camera image on challenging weather conditions. This work explores the significance of different sensor modalities such as camera,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Sadique Adnan Siddiqui , Axel Vierling , Karsten Berns

The detection and classification of microplastics in water remain a significant challenge due to their diverse properties and the limitations of traditional optical methods. Standard spectroscopic techniques often suffer from the strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Leonard Saur , Marc von Pawlowski , Ulrich Gengenbach , Ingo Sieber , Hossein Shirali , Lorenz Wührl , Xiangyu Weng , Rainer Kiko , Christian Pylatiuk

We have designed a plenoptic sensor to retrieve phase and amplitude changes resulting from a laser beam's propagation through atmospheric turbulence. Compared with the commonly restricted domain of (-pi, pi) in phase reconstruction by…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Chensheng Wu , Jonathan Ko , Christopher C. Davis

The vectorial evolution of polarized light interaction with a medium can reveal its microstructure and anisotropy beyond what can be obtained from scalar light interaction. Anisotropic properties (diattenuation, retardance, and…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-26 Zhineng Xie , Guowu Huang , Weihao Lin , Xin Jin , Yifan Ge , Yansen Hu , Xiafei Qian , Min Xu

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

Visible-light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols within the boundary layer affect the radiance and polarization states of the radiation at the top of the atmosphere. Remote sensing from suborbital and satellite-based platforms utilizes these…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 Chenchong Zhang , William R. Heinson , Michael J. Garay , Olga Kalashnikova , Rajan K. Chakrabarty

Polarization measurements done using Imaging Polarimeters such as the Robotic Polarimeter are very sensitive to the presence of artefacts in images. Artefacts can range from internal reflections in a telescope to satellite trails that could…

Wide-field imaging Mueller polarimetry is a revolutionary, label-free, and non-invasive modality for computer-aided intervention: in neurosurgery it aims to provide visual feedback of white matter fibre bundle orientation from derived…

LiDAR is an essential sensor for autonomous driving by collecting precise geometric information regarding a scene. %Exploiting this information for perception is interesting as the amount of available data increases. As the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jules Sanchez , Louis Soum-Fontez , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , Francois Goulette