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We present a stochastic description of multiple scattering of polarized waves in the regime of forward scattering. In this regime, if the source is polarized, polarization survives along a few transport mean free paths, making it possible…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-07-19 Jérémie Boulanger , Nicolas le Bihan , Vincent Rossetto

In-line polarimeters perform non-destructive polarization measurements of optical signals, and play a critical role in monitoring and controlling the polarization environment in for example optical networks. While current in-line…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-10 J. P. Balthasar Müller , Kristjan Leosson , Federico Capasso

This paper tackles the problem of estimating 3D body shape of clothed humans from single polarized 2D images, i.e. polarization images. Polarization images are known to be able to capture polarized reflected lights that preserve rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Shihao Zou , Xinxin Zuo , Yiming Qian , Sen Wang , Chi Xu , Minglun Gong , Li Cheng

Despeckling is a crucial noise reduction task in improving the quality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Directly obtaining noise-free SAR images is a challenging task that has hindered the development of accurate despeckling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Shunya Kato , Masaki Saito , Katsuhiko Ishiguro , Sol Cummings

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

In this work, we propose a novel learning-based method to jointly estimate the shape and subsurface scattering (SSS) parameters of translucent objects by utilizing polarization cues. Although polarization cues have been used in various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Chenhao Li , Trung Thanh Ngo , Hajime Nagahara

Plastic waste in aquatic environments poses severe risks to marine life and human health. Autonomous robots can be utilized to collect floating waste, but they require accurate object identification capability. While deep learning has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Luis Felipe Wolf Batista , Salim Khazem , Mehran Adibi , Seth Hutchinson , Cedric Pradalier

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

Sparse-view satellite image surface reconstruction remains highly challenging, fundamentally because the reliability of multi-view matching under satellite imaging conditions is strongly spatially heterogeneous. Affected by large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Min Chen , Wei Guo , Bin Wang , Wen Li , Tong Fang , Jinbo Zhang , Junqi Zhao , Hong Kuang , Han Hu , Xuming Ge , Qing Zhu , Bo Xu

Imaging an object embedded within a scattering medium requires the correction of complex sample-induced wave distortions. Existing approaches have been designed to resolve them by optimizing signal waves recorded in each 2D image. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-17 Ye-Ryoung Lee , Dong-Young Kim , Yonghyeon Jo , Moonseok Kim , Wonshik Choi

The translation of imaging Mueller polarimetry to clinical practice is often hindered by large footprint and relatively slow acquisition speed of the existing instruments. Using polarization-sensitive camera as a detector may reduce…

Polarization images facilitate image enhancement and 3D reconstruction tasks, but the limited accessibility of polarization cameras hinders their broader application. This gap drives the need for synthesizing photorealistic polarization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kailong Zhang , Youwei Lyu , Heng Guo , Si Li , Zhanyu Ma , Boxin Shi

Three-dimensional scene reconstruction from sparse-view satellite images is a long-standing and challenging task. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and its variants have recently attracted attention for its high efficiency, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Xuejun Huang , Xinyi Liu , Yi Wan , Zhi Zheng , Bin Zhang , Mingtao Xiong , Yingying Pei , Yongjun Zhang

Mapping the seafloor with underwater imaging cameras is of significant importance for various applications including marine engineering, geology, geomorphology, archaeology and biology. For shallow waters, among the underwater imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Panagiotis Agrafiotis , Konstantinos Karantzalos , Andreas Georgopoulos

When light scatters off an object its polarization, in general, changes - a transformation described by the object's Mueller matrix. Mueller matrix imaging polarimetry is an important technique in science and technology to image the…

Vision foundation models in remote sensing have been extensively studied due to their superior generalization on various downstream tasks. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) offers all-day, all-weather imaging capabilities, providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Mengyu Wang , Hanbo Bi , Yingchao Feng , Linlin Xin , Shuo Gong , Tianqi Wang , Zhiyuan Yan , Peijin Wang , Wenhui Diao , Xian Sun

Material classification is a fundamental problem in computer vision and plays a crucial role in scene understanding. Previous studies have explored various material recognition methods based on reflection properties such as color, texture,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ryota Maeda , Naoki Arikawa , Yutaka No , Shinsaku Hiura

In recent years, the underwater image formation model has found extensive use in the generation of synthetic underwater data. Although many approaches focus on scenes primarily affected by discoloration, they often overlook the model's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Vasiliki Ismiroglou , Malte Pedersen , Stefan H. Bengtson , Andreas Aakerberg , Thomas B. Moeslund

Underwater 3D scene reconstruction faces severe challenges from light absorption, scattering, and turbidity, which degrade geometry and color fidelity in traditional methods like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). While NeRF extensions such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Wenpeng Xing , Jie Chen , Zaifeng Yang , Changting Lin , Jianfeng Dong , Chaochao Chen , Xun Zhou , Meng Han

Recent advancements in neural surface reconstruction have significantly enhanced 3D reconstruction. However, current real world datasets mainly focus on benchmarking multiview stereo (MVS) based on RGB inputs. Multiview photometric stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zaiyan Yang , Jieji Ren , Xiangyi Wang , zonglin li , Xu Cao , Heng Guo , Zhanyu Ma , Boxin Shi