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A metalens is composed of an array of artificially designed meta-atoms which can manipulate the phase, polarization and amplitude of light making it an excellent component for wavefront modulation. In this study, we design an transmittive…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 Hong Song Fang , Ly Ly Nguyen Thi , Shu-Chun Chu

This study is concerned with the design of a Mueller imaging polarimeter for the visualization of spatially-varying Mueller matrix fields. A simplified calibration procedure is advocated, where all the optical elements are calibrated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-08 Yvain Quéau , Florian Leporcq , Ayman Alfalou

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

Birefringence, an inherent characteristic of optically anisotropic materials, is widely utilized in various imaging applications ranging from material characterizations to clinical diagnosis. Polarized light microscopy enables…

Accurate characterization of polarization dependent light matter interactions in nanostructured systems is paramount for the development of chiral metasurfaces. It is also often challenging, because multiple anisotropic mechanisms, such as…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-27 Jeeban Kumar Nayak , Ebru Buhara , Olivier J. F. Martin

Integration of conventional mid to long-wavelength infrared polarizers with chip-scale platforms is restricted by their bulky size and complex fabrication. Van der Waals materials based polarizer can address these challenges due to its…

In this paper, we propose a hybrid depth imaging system in which a polarisation camera is augmented by a second image from a standard digital camera. For this modest increase in equipment complexity over conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Dizhong Zhu , William A. P. Smith

Active polarimetric imagery is a powerful tool for accessing the information present in a scene. Indeed, the polarimetric images obtained can reveal polarizing properties of the objects that are not avalaible using conventional imaging…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Muriel Roche , Philippe Réfrégier

Metasurfaces provide a compact, flexible, and reliable solution for controlling the wavefront of light. In imaging systems, micro-lens arrays are integrated with pixel matrices to reduce optical crosstalk, enhance photon collection…

In recent years, handheld and portable terahertz instruments have been in rapid development for various applications ranging from non-destructive testing to biomedical imaging and sensing. For instance, we have deployed our Portable…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-22 Zachery B. Harris , Kuangyi Xu , M. Hassan Arbab

POLSAR image has an advantage over optical image because it can be acquired independently of cloud cover and solar illumination. PolSAR image classification is a hot and valuable topic for the interpretation of POLSAR image. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Xu Liu , Licheng Jiao , Dan Zhang , Fang Liu

We present an imaging algorithm for polarimetric interferometric data from radio telescopes. It is based on Bayesian statistics and thereby able to provide uncertainties and to incorporate prior information such as positivity of the total…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Philipp Arras , Jakob Roth , Martin Reinecke , Richard A. Perley , Andrei Frolov , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten A. Enßlin

We tackle the challenge of robust, in-the-wild imaging using ultra-thin nanophotonic metalens cameras. Meta-lenses, composed of planar arrays of nanoscale scatterers, promise dramatic reductions in size and weight compared to conventional…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-14 Debabrata Mandal , Zhihan Peng , Yujie Wang , Praneeth Chakravarthula

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

Classification of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images is an active research area with a major role in environmental applications. The traditional Machine Learning (ML) methods proposed in this domain generally focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Mete Ahishali , Serkan Kiranyaz , Turker Ince , Moncef Gabbouj

Histopathology, the study and diagnosis of disease through analysis of tissue samples, is an indispensable part of modern medicine. However, the practice is time consuming and labor intensive, compelling efforts to improve the process and…

Radiometric infrared (IR) imaging is a valuable technique for remote-sensing applications in precision agriculture, such as irrigation monitoring, crop health assessment, and yield estimation. Low-cost uncooled non-radiometric IR cameras…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Navot Oz , Nir Sochen , David Mendlovic , Iftach Klapp

Spectroscopic ellipsometry is a potent method that is widely adopted for the measurement of thin film thickness and refractive index. However, a conventional ellipsometer, which utilizes a mechanically rotating polarizer and grating-based…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-14 Shun Wen , Xinyuan Xue , Liqun Sun , Yuanmu Yang

Metasurfaces enable exceptional control over the light with surface-confined planar components, offering the fascinating possibility of very dense integration and miniaturization in photonics. Here, we design, fabricate and experimentally…

This paper focuses on a new problem of estimating human pose and shape from single polarization images. Polarization camera is known to be able to capture the polarization of reflected lights that preserves rich geometric cues of an object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Shihao Zou , Xinxin Zuo , Sen Wang , Yiming Qian , Chuan Guo , Li Cheng