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The recent development of the on-chip micro-polarizer technology has made it possible to acquire four spatially aligned and temporally synchronized polarization images with the same ease of operation as a conventional camera. In this paper,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Juiwen Ting , Xuesong Wu , Kangkang Hu , Hong Zhang

Imaging 3D nano-structures at very high resolution is crucial in a variety of scientific fields. However, due to fundamental limitations of light propagation we can only measure the object indirectly via 2D intensity measurements of the 3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-28 Zalan Fabian , Justin Haldar , Richard Leahy , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Infrared (IR) thermography provides 2D radiance maps of the IR radiation leaving the surfaces of a scene, based on preliminary calibration. Then, to convert radiance maps into temperature maps, we need to know the emissivity of each element…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Jean-Claude Krapez

Coherent diffractive imaging is a technique that recovers the sample image by numerically inverting its diffraction pattern. We propose a generalization of this method for the inversion of multi-wavelength data. Using this approach, we show…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-08 Erik Malm , Edwin Fohtung , Anders Mikkelsen

Recovering detailed facial geometry from a set of calibrated multi-view images is valuable for its wide range of applications. Traditional multi-view stereo (MVS) methods adopt an optimization-based scheme to regularize the matching cost.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Yunze Xiao , Hao Zhu , Haotian Yang , Zhengyu Diao , Xiangju Lu , Xun Cao

Determining the shape of 3D objects from high-frequency radar signals is analytically complex but critical for commercial and aerospace applications. Previous deep learning methods have been applied to radar modeling; however, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Neel Sortur , Justin Goodwin , Purvik Patel , Luis Enrique Martinez , Tzofi Klinghoffer , Rajmonda S. Caceres , Robin Walters

Recent advances in implicit neural representations and differentiable rendering make it possible to simultaneously recover the geometry and materials of an object from multi-view RGB images captured under unknown static illumination.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Yuanqing Zhang , Jiaming Sun , Xingyi He , Huan Fu , Rongfei Jia , Xiaowei Zhou

Many spectacular polarimetric images have been obtained in recent years with adaptive optics (AO) instruments at large telescopes because they profit significantly from the high spatial resolution. This paper summarizes some basic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-01 H. M. Schmid

Existing works on motion deblurring either ignore the effects of depth-dependent blur or work with the assumption of a multi-layered scene wherein each layer is modeled in the form of fronto-parallel plane. In this work, we consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Kuldeep Purohit , Subeesh Vasu , M. Purnachandra Rao , A. N. Rajagopalan

In this paper, we investigate a new optimization framework for multi-view 3D shape reconstructions. Recent differentiable rendering approaches have provided breakthrough performances with implicit shape representations though they can still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Pierre Zins , Yuanlu Xu , Edmond Boyer , Stefanie Wuhrer , Tony Tung

Context: Polarimetry is a very powerful tool to uncover various properties of astronomical objects that remain otherwise hidden in standard imaging or spectroscopic observations. However, the reliable measurement of the low polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 S. González-Gaitán , A. M. Mourão , F. Patat , J. P. Anderson , A. Cikota , K. Wiersema , A. B. Higgins , K. Silva

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…

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image segmentation is currently of great importance in image processing for remote sensing applications. However, it is a challenging task due to two main reasons. Firstly, the label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Haixia Bi , Lin Xu , Xiangyong Cao , Yong Xue , Zongben Xu

We present a method for 3D reconstruction only using calibrated multi-view surface azimuth maps. Our method, multi-view azimuth stereo, is effective for textureless or specular surfaces, which are difficult for conventional multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Xu Cao , Hiroaki Santo , Fumio Okura , Yasuyuki Matsushita

This paper addresses the problem of inverse rendering from photometric images. Existing approaches for this problem suffer from the effects of self-shadows, inter-reflections, and lack of constraints on the surface reflectance, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jingzhi Bao , Guanying Chen , Shuguang Cui

Imaging polarimetry allows more information to be extracted from a scene than conventional intensity or colour imaging. However, a major challenge of imaging polarimetry is image degradation due to noise. This paper investigates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Alexander B. Tibbs , Ilse M. Daly , Nicholas W. Roberts , David R. Bull

We fabricate and characterize a three-dimensional polarization-independent invisibility cloak operating at visible wavelengths of light. The required drastic miniaturization has become possible by employing stimulated-emission-depletion…

Optics · Physics 2010-12-16 Joachim Fischer , Tolga Ergin , Martin Wegener

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

6D pose estimation pipelines that rely on RGB-only or RGB-D data show limitations for photometrically challenging objects with e.g. textureless surfaces, reflections or transparency. A supervised learning-based method utilising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Patrick Ruhkamp , Daoyi Gao , HyunJun Jung , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

The possibility to obtain a three-dimensional representation of a single object with sub-$\mu$m resolution is crucial in many fields, from material science to clinical diagnostics. This is typically achieved through tomography, which…