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Light reflection plays a crucial role in a number of modern technologies. In this paper, analytical expressions for maximal reflected power in any direction and for any polarization are given for generic planar structures made of a single…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-12 Mohamed Ismail Abdelrahman , Francesco Monticone

Polarization is a degree of freedom of light carrying important information that is usually absent in intensity and spectral content. Imaging polarimetry is the process of determining the polarization state of light, either partially or…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-12 Ehsan Arbabi , Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali , Amir Arbabi , Andrei Faraon

Polarized light microscopy provides unique opportunities for analyzing the molecular order in man-made and natural materials, including biological structures inside living cells, tissues, and whole organisms. 20 years ago, the LC-PolScope…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Shalin B. Mehta , Michael Shribak , Rudolf Oldenbourg

Light has many properties that vision sensors can passively measure. Colour-band separated wavelength and intensity are arguably the most commonly used for monocular 6D object pose estimation. This paper explores how complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Daoyi Gao , Yitong Li , Patrick Ruhkamp , Iuliia Skobleva , Magdalena Wysock , HyunJun Jung , Pengyuan Wang , Arturo Guridi , Benjamin Busam

Removing reflection artefacts from a single image is a problem of both theoretical and practical interest, which still presents challenges because of the massively ill-posed nature of the problem. In this work, we propose a technique based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Daniel Heydecker , Georg Maierhofer , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Qingnan Fan , Dongdong Chen , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Sabine Süsstrunk

Object detection in road scenes is necessary to develop both autonomous vehicles and driving assistance systems. Even if deep neural networks for recognition task have shown great performances using conventional images, they fail to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Rachel Blin , Samia Ainouz , Stéphane Canu , Fabrice Meriaudeau

(Abridged) Context. To directly image rocky exoplanets in reflected (polarized) light, future space- and ground-based high-contrast imagers and telescopes aim to reach extreme contrasts at close separations from the star. However, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-02 R. G. van Holstein , C. U. Keller , F. Snik , S. P. Bos

Reflections are very common phenomena in our daily photography, which distract people's attention from the scene behind the glass. The problem of removing reflection artifacts is important but challenging due to its ill-posed nature. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yingda Yin , Qingnan Fan , Dongdong Chen , Yujie Wang , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Ruoteng Li , Carola-Bibiane Schnlieb , Baoquan Chen

Image of a scene captured through a piece of transparent and reflective material, such as glass, is often spoiled by a superimposed layer of reflection image. While separating the reflection from a familiar object in an image is mentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Zhixiang Chi , Xiaolin Wu , Xiao Shu , Jinjin Gu

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have demonstrated great success in modeling reflective 3D objects and their interaction with the environment via deferred rendering (DR). However, existing methods often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jiale Wu , Xiaoyang Bai , Zongqi He , Weiwei Xu , Yifan Peng

This research focuses on the issue of single-image reflection removal (SIRR) in real-world conditions, examining it from two angles: the collection pipeline of real reflection pairs and the perception of real reflection locations. We devise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yurui Zhu , Xueyang Fu , Peng-Tao Jiang , Hao Zhang , Qibin Sun , Jinwei Chen , Zheng-Jun Zha , Bo Li

Reflection is common in images capturing scenes behind a glass window, which is not only a disturbance visually but also influence the performance of other computer vision algorithms. Single image reflection removal is an ill-posed problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yunfei Liu , Yu Li , Shaodi You , Feng Lu

Polarization cameras can capture multiple polarized images with different polarizer angles in a single shot, bringing convenience to polarization-based downstream tasks. However, their direct outputs are color-polarization filter array…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Shuangfan Zhou , Chu Zhou , Youwei Lyu , Heng Guo , Zhanyu Ma , Boxin Shi , Imari Sato

This paper tackles the problem of estimating 3D body shape of clothed humans from single polarized 2D images, i.e. polarization images. Polarization images are known to be able to capture polarized reflected lights that preserve rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Shihao Zou , Xinxin Zuo , Yiming Qian , Sen Wang , Chi Xu , Minglun Gong , Li Cheng

The evolution of computer-generated holography (CGH) algorithms has prompted significant improvements in the performances of holographic displays. Nonetheless, they start to encounter a limited degree of freedom in CGH optimization and…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-27 Seung-Woo Nam , Youngjin Kim , Dongyeon Kim , Yoonchan Jeong

We describe a system to remove real-world reflections from images for consumer photography. Our system operates on linear (RAW) photos, and accepts an optional contextual photo looking in the opposite direction (e.g., the "selfie" camera on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Eric Kee , Adam Pikielny , Kevin Blackburn-Matzen , Marc Levoy

Shape estimation for transparent objects is challenging due to their complex light transport. To circumvent these difficulties, we leverage the Shape from Polarization (SfP) technique in the Long-Wave Infrared (LWIR) spectrum, where most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kazuma Kitazawa , Tsuyoshi Takatani

In radio astronomy, visibility data, which are measurements of wave signals from radio telescopes, are transformed into images for observation of distant celestial objects. However, these resultant images usually contain both real sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Ruoqi Wang , Zhuoyang Chen , Jiayi Zhu , Qiong Luo , Feng Wang

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

In laser gravitational waves detectors optical loss restricts sensitivity. We discuss polarization scattering as one more possible mechanism of optical losses. Circulated inside interferometer light is polarized and after reflection its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-20 Sergey P. Vyatchanin