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Inverse rendering aims to reconstruct geometry and reflectance from captured images. Display-camera imaging systems offer unique advantages for this task: each pixel can easily function as a programmable point light source, and the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Seokjun Choi , Hoon-Gyu Chung , Yujin Jeon , Giljoo Nam , Seung-Hwan Baek

Polarization images are known to be able to capture polarized reflected lights that preserve rich geometric cues of an object, which has motivated its recent applications in reconstructing detailed surface normal of the objects of interest.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Shihao Zou , Xinxin Zuo , Yiming Qian , Sen Wang , Chuan Guo , Chi Xu , Minglun Gong , Li Cheng

Polarized color photography provides both visual textures and object surficial information in one single snapshot. However, the use of the directional polarizing filter array causes extremely lower photon count and SNR compared to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Zhuoxiao Li , Haiyang Jiang , Yinqiang Zheng

Computer vision is increasingly used in areas such as unmanned vehicles, surveillance systems and remote sensing. However, in foggy scenarios, image degradation leads to loss of target details, which seriously affects the accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Zhenjun Zhang , Lijun Tang , Hongjin Wang , Lilian Zhang , Yunze He , Yaonan Wang

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

This paper proposes a novel polarization sensor structure and network architecture to obtain a high-quality RGB image and polarization information. Conventional polarization sensors can simultaneously acquire RGB images and polarization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Teppei Kurita , Yuhi Kondo , Legong Sun , Yusuke Moriuchi

Autonomous driving and advanced driver-assistance systems rely on a set of sensors and algorithms to perform the appropriate actions and provide alerts as a function of the driving scene. Typically, the sensors include color cameras, radar,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Michael Baltaxe , Tomer Pe'er , Dan Levi

Polarization is well known for its ability to decompose diffuse and specular reflections. However, the existing decomposition methods only focus on direct reflection and overlook multiple reflections, especially specular inter-reflection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ryota Maeda , Shinsaku Hiura

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

Robotics applications in urban environments are subject to obstacles that exhibit specular reflections hampering autonomous navigation. On the other hand, these reflections are highly polarized and this extra information can successfully be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Marc Blanchon , Olivier Morel , Fabrice Meriaudeau , Ralph Seulin , Désiré Sidibé

Reflections often degrade the quality of the image by obstructing the background scene. This is not desirable for everyday users, and it negatively impacts the performance of multimedia applications that process images with reflections.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Suhong Kim , Hamed RahmaniKhezri , Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh , Mohamed Hefeeda

This paper is concerned with specular reflection removal based on tensor low-rank decomposition framework with the help of polarization information. Our method is motivated by the observation that the specular highlight of an image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Moein Shakeri , Hong Zhang

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

Removing reflections is a crucial task in computer vision, with significant applications in photography and image enhancement. Nevertheless, existing methods are constrained by the absence of large-scale, high-quality, and diverse datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jie Cai , Kangning Yang , Ling Ouyang , Lan Fu , Jiaming Ding , Jinglin Shen , Zibo Meng

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in reconstructing complex scenes with high fidelity. However, NeRF's view dependency can only handle low-frequency reflections. It falls short when handling complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Chen Gao , Yipeng Wang , Changil Kim , Jia-Bin Huang , Johannes Kopf

Polarimetric imaging has been applied in a growing number of applications in robotic vision (ex. underwater navigation, glare removal, de-hazing, object classification, and depth estimation). One can find on the market RGB Polarization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Joaquin Rodriguez , Lew Lew-Yan-Voon , Renato Martins , Olivier Morel

We present NeRSP, a Neural 3D reconstruction technique for Reflective surfaces with Sparse Polarized images. Reflective surface reconstruction is extremely challenging as specular reflections are view-dependent and thus violate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yufei Han , Heng Guo , Koki Fukai , Hiroaki Santo , Boxin Shi , Fumio Okura , Zhanyu Ma , Yunpeng Jia

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…

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

In this paper, we study a new problem, Film Removal (FR), which attempts to remove the interference of wrinkled transparent films and reconstruct the original information under films for industrial recognition systems. We first physically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Jiaqi Tang , Ruizheng Wu , Xiaogang Xu , Sixing Hu , Ying-Cong Chen