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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…

A shearing interferometer is presented which uses polarization control to shear the wavefront and to modulate the interference pattern. The shear is generated by spatial walk-off in a birefringent crystal. By adjusting the orientation of…

Optics · Physics 2012-12-11 Peter Beyersdorf , Mark Cordier

Polarization images provide rich physical information that is fundamentally absent from standard RGB images, benefiting a wide range of computer vision applications such as reflection separation and material classification. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Beibei Lin , Zifeng Yuan , Tingting Chen

Calibration of instrumental polarization is critical for measuring polarized radio emissions from astrophysical sources to extract the magnetic field information in astrophysical, heliospheric, and terrestrial plasmas. At meter wavelengths,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-08 Devojyoti Kansabanik , Angelos Vourlidas , Soham Dey , Surajit Mondal , Divya Oberoi

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

We develop a novel algorithm for sparse Stokes parameters imaging in radio interferometry under the polarization constraint. The latter is a physical non-linear relation between the Stokes parameters, imposing that the polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Jasleen Birdi , Audrey Repetti , Yves Wiaux

The B-Machine Telescope is the culmination of several years of development, construction, characterization and observation. The telescope is a departure from standard polarization chopping of correlation receivers to a half wave plate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-11 Brian D. Williams

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

In this paper, a methodology is investigated for signal recovery in the presence of non-Gaussian noise. In contrast with regularized minimization approaches often adopted in the literature, in our algorithm the regularization parameter is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-23 Yosra Marnissi , Yuling Zheng , Emilie Chouzenoux , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

In a recent experiment by Eichmann et al., polarization-sensitive measurements of the fluorescence from two four-level ions driven by a linearly polarized laser were made. Depending on the polarization chosen, different degrees of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Wong , S. M. Tan , M. J. Collett , D. F. Walls

We realize a single particle microscope by using deterministically extracted laser cooled $^{40}$Ca$^+$ ions from a Paul trap as probe particles for transmission imaging. We demonstrate focusing of the ions with a resolution of…

Interferometry techniques are essential for extracting phase information from optical systems, enabling precise measurements of dispersion and highly sensitive detection of perturbations. While phase sensing offers enhanced sensitivity…

Context: Most upcoming CMB polarization experiments will use direct imaging to search for the primordial gravitational waves through the B-modes. Bolometric interferometry is an appealing alternative to direct imaging that combines the…

Polarization measurements of the gamma-ray component of transient sources are of great scientific interest, they are however, also highly challenging. This is due to the typical low signal to noise and the potential for significant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Merlin Kole , Jianchao Sun

Taking advantage of the advances in array detector technology, an imaging polarimeter (IMPOL) has been constructed for measuring linear polarization in the wavelength band from 400-800 nm. It makes use of a Wollaston prism as the analyser…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 A. N. Ramaprakash , Ranjan Gupta , A. K. Sen , S. N. Tandon

Polarization is one of the fundamental natures of electromagnetic radiation. The detection of polarization or polarized photons from distant X-ray radiating systems (such as X-ray binaries (XBs), active galactic nuclei (AGN), pulsars, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-01 Arbind Pradhan , Sree Bhattacherjee , Biplob Sarkar

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

We present the results of generalized measurements of optical polarization designed to provide one of three or four distinct outcomes. This has allowed us to discriminate between nonorthogonal polarization states with an error probability…

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

The polarization decomposition of arbitrary binary-input memoryless channels (BMCs) is studied in this work. By introducing the polarization factor (PF), defined in terms of the conditional entropy of the channel output under various input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Tianfu Qi , Jun Wang