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We present an approach to spectropolarimetry which requires neither moving parts nor time dependent modulation, and which offers the prospect of achieving high sensitivity. The technique applies equally well, in principle, in the optical,…

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High-dimensional imaging technology has demonstrated significant research value across diverse fields, including environmental monitoring, agricultural inspection, and biomedical imaging, through integrating spatial (X*Y), spectral, and…

Accurate and fast 3D imaging of specular surfaces still poses major challenges for state-of-the-art optical measurement principles. Frequently used methods, such as phase-measuring deflectometry (PMD) or shape-from-polarization (SfP), rely…

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The data fusion technology aims to aggregate the characteristics of different data and obtain products with multiple data advantages. To solves the problem of reduced resolution of PolSAR images due to system limitations, we propose a fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Liupeng Lin , Jie Li , Huanfeng Shen , Lingli Zhao , Qiangqiang Yuan , Xinghua Li

Modern detector manufacturing allows spectral and polarimetric filters to be directly integrated on top of separate detector pixels. This enables the creation of CubeSat-sized spectro-polarimetric instruments that are not much larger than…

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Snapshot hyperspectral imaging systems acquire spectral data cubes through compressed sensing. Recently, diffractive snapshot spectral imaging (DSSI) methods have attracted significant attention. While various optical designs and…

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We introduce a wavelength-multiplexed massively parallel diffractive information storage platform composed of dielectric surfaces that are structurally optimized at the wavelength scale using deep learning to store and project thousands of…

Spectro-polarimetric imaging in the long-wave infrared (LWIR) region plays a crucial role in applications from night vision and machine perception to trace gas sensing and thermography. However, the current generation of…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-17 Xueji Wang , Ziyi Yang , Fanglin Bao , Tyler Sentz , Zubin Jacob

Phase imaging is widely used in biomedical imaging, sensing, and material characterization, among other fields. However, direct imaging of phase objects with subwavelength resolution remains a challenge. Here, we demonstrate subwavelength…

Image datasets are essential not only in validating existing methods in computer vision but also in developing new methods. Most existing image datasets focus on trichromatic intensity images to mimic human vision. However, polarization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yujin Jeon , Eunsue Choi , Youngchan Kim , Yunseong Moon , Khalid Omer , Felix Heide , Seung-Hwan Baek

A compact and broadband polarimetric imaging platform is presented, based on second-harmonic generation (SHG) in nonlinear flat-optics. The system employs periodic all-dielectric AlGaAs gratings to induce polarization-dependent SH emission,…

Polarimetric imaging is one of the most effective techniques for high-contrast imaging and characterization of circumstellar environments. These environments can be characterized through direct-imaging polarimetry at near-infrared…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Laurence Denneulin , Maud Langlois , Éric Thiébaut , Nelly Pustelnik

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have been recently utilized to deal with various blind image restoration (IR) tasks, where they have demonstrated outstanding performance in terms of perceptual quality. However, the task-specific…

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Multi-spectral imagers reveal information unperceivable to humans and conventional cameras. Here, we demonstrate a compact single-shot multi-spectral video-imaging camera by placing a micro-structured diffractive filter in close proximity…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-14 Peng Wang , Rajesh Menon

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

Full Stokes filter-polarimeters are key instruments for investigating the rapid evolution of magnetic structures on the solar surface. To this end, the image quality is routinely improved using a-posteriori image reconstruction methods. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Asensio Ramos , M. J. Martinez Gonzalez , E. Khomenko , V. Martinez Pillet

Polarimetric imaging aims to recover polarimetric parameters, including Total Intensity (TI), Degree of Polarization (DoP), and Angle of Polarization (AoP), from captured polarized measurements. In real-world scenarios, these measurements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Chu Zhou , Yufei Han , Junda Liao , Linrui Dai , Wangze Xu , Art Subpa-Asa , Heng Guo , Boxin Shi , Imari Sato

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

Polarization diversity offers a cost- and space-efficient solution to enhance the performance of integrated sensing and communication systems. Polarimetric sensing exploits the signal's polarity to extract details about the target such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Byunghyun Lee , Rang Liu , David J. Love , James V. Krogmeier , A. Lee Swindlehurst

An eight stage balanced modulation scheme for dual beam polarimetry is presented in this paper. The four Stokes parameters are weighted equally in all the eight stages of modulation resulting in total polarimetric efficiency of unity. The…

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