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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

Polarimetric imaging captures surface polarization characteristics, such as the Degree of Linear Polarization (DoLP) and the Angle of Polarization (AoP). In mainstream Division of-Focal-Plane (DoFP) color polarization imaging, recovering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chenggong Li , Yidong Luo , Junchao Zhang , Boxin Shi , Degui Yang

Glass surfaces create complex interactions of reflected and transmitted light, making single-image reflection removal (SIRR) challenging. Existing datasets suffer from limited physical realism in synthetic data or insufficient scale in real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yu Guo , Zhiqiang Lao , Xiyun Song , Yubin Zhou , Heather Yu

Circularly polarized light plays a key role in many applications including spectroscopy, microscopy, and control of atomic systems. Particularly in the latter, high polarization purity is often required. Integrated technologies for atomic…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-20 Leonardo Massai , Tom Schatteburg , Jonathan P. Home , Karan K. Mehta

The polarization of light conveys crucial information about the spatial ordering and optical properties of a specimen. However, precise polarization measurement in challenging conditions, including constrained spaces, low light levels, and…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-10 Martin Bielak , Dominik Vašinka , Miroslav Ježek

We introduce OpenIllumination, a real-world dataset containing over 108K images of 64 objects with diverse materials, captured under 72 camera views and a large number of different illuminations. For each image in the dataset, we provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Isabella Liu , Linghao Chen , Ziyang Fu , Liwen Wu , Haian Jin , Zhong Li , Chin Ming Ryan Wong , Yi Xu , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Zexiang Xu , Hao Su

Intrinsic image decomposition aims to factorize an image into albedo (reflectance) and shading (illumination) sub-components. Being ill-posed and under-constrained, it is a very challenging computer vision problem. There are infinite pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Anil S. Baslamisli , Theo Gevers

Sparse representation of images under certain transform domain has been playing a fundamental role in image restoration tasks. One such representative method is the widely used wavelet tight frame systems. Instead of adopting fixed filters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Dai-Qiang Chen

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

Imaging polarimetry is a powerful tool for detecting and characterizing exoplanets and circumstellar environments. Polarimetry allows a separation of the light coming from an unpolarized source such as a star and the polarized source such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 H. Canovas , M. Rodenhuis , S. V. Jeffers , M. Min , C. U. Keller

It has already been shown that microlensing can give rise to a non-zero variable polarisation signal. Here we use realistic simulations to demonstrate the additional information that can be gained from polarimetric observations of lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. M. Newsam , J. F. L. Simmons , M. A. Hendry , I. J. Coleman

We present a new data-driven approach with physics-based priors to scene-level normal estimation from a single polarization image. Existing shape from polarization (SfP) works mainly focus on estimating the normal of a single object rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Chenyang Lei , Chenyang Qi , Jiaxin Xie , Na Fan , Vladlen Koltun , Qifeng Chen

A novel technique for polarization-multiplexing ghost imaging is proposed to simultaneously obtain multiple polarimetric information by a single detector. Here, polarization-division multiplexing speckles are employed for object…

Quantum imaging is an advanced method for microscopy or investigating the optical properties of materials or bio-medical inspections with high accuracy, low noise, and extremely low photo-damage. In previous work, we proposed a quantum…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-09 Mousume Samad , Maki Shimizu , Yasuto Hijikata

Intrinsic image decomposition, which is an essential task in computer vision, aims to infer the reflectance and shading of the scene. It is challenging since it needs to separate one image into two components. To tackle this, conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Yunfei Liu , Yu Li , Shaodi You , Feng Lu

Polarization is a fundamental property of light that carries distinct and valuable information. Consequently, its precise measurement is crucial for numerous applications, including biomedical imaging, remote sensing, and optical…

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) have revolutionized the field of image-based view synthesis. However, NeRF uses straight rays and fails to deal with complicated light path changes caused by refraction and reflection. This prevents NeRF from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Xiaoxue Chen , Junchen Liu , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou , Ya-Qin Zhang

Deep learning models have a large number of free parameters that must be estimated by efficient training of the models on a large number of training data samples to increase their generalization performance. In real-world applications, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Hojjat Salehinejad , Shahrokh Valaee , Timothy Dowdell , Joseph Barfett

Optical aberrations prevent telescopes from reaching their theoretical diffraction limit. Once estimated, these aberrations can be compensated for using deformable mirrors in a closed loop. Focal plane wavefront sensing enables the…

Color polarization demosaicking (CPDM) aims to reconstruct full-resolution polarization images of four directions from the color-polarization filter array (CPFA) raw image. Due to the challenge of predicting numerous missing pixels and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Chenggong Li , Yidong Luo , Junchao Zhang , Degui Yang