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Optical interferometric image reconstruction is a challenging, ill-posed optimization problem which usually relies on heavy regularization for convergence. Conventional algorithms regularize in the pixel domain, without cognizance of…

We present a simple but powerful technique for the analysis of polarized emission from radio galaxies and other objects. It is based on the fact that images of Stokes parameters often contain considerably more information than is available…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-10 Lawrence Rudnick , Debora Katz , Lerato Sebokolodi

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

All-in-one image restoration aims to handle diverse degradations (e.g., noise, blur, adverse weather) within a unified framework, yet existing methods increasingly rely on complex architectures (e.g., Mixture-of-Experts, diffusion models)…

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As the realm of spectral imaging applications extends its reach into the domains of mobile technology and augmented reality, the demands for compact yet high-fidelity systems become increasingly pronounced. Conventional methodologies,…

Optical neural networks are emerging as a powerful and versatile tool for processing optical signals directly in the optical domain with superior speed, integrability, and functionality. Their application to optical polarization enables…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-24 Alessandro Petrini , Claudio Conti , Davide Pierangeli

Neural approaches have shown a significant progress on camera-based reconstruction. But they require either a fairly dense sampling of the viewing sphere, or pre-training on an existing dataset, thereby limiting their generalizability. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Mohammed Brahimi , Bjoern Haefner , Zhenzhang Ye , Bastian Goldluecke , Daniel Cremers

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

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

Today, three-dimensional reconstruction of objects has many applications in various fields, and therefore, choosing a suitable method for high resolution three-dimensional reconstruction is an important issue and displaying high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 F. S. Mortazavi , S. Dajkhosh , M. Saadatseresht

Perceiving and reconstructing objects from images are critical for real-to-sim transfer tasks, which are widely used in the robotics community. Existing methods rely on multiple submodules such as detection, segmentation, shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Chuanrui Zhang , Yingshuang Zou , ZhengXian Wu , Yonggen Ling , Yuxiao Yang , Ziwei Wang

Light emitted from a source into a scene can undergo complex interactions with scene surfaces of different material types before being reflected. During this transport, every surface reflection is encoded in the properties of the photons…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Seung-Hwan Baek , Felix Heide

Due to inevitable noises introduced during scanning and quantization, 3D reconstruction via RGB-D sensors suffers from errors both in geometry and texture, leading to artifacts such as camera drifting, mesh distortion, texture ghosting, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Jingbo Zhang , Ziyu Wan , Jing Liao

Monocular surface normal estimators trained on large-scale RGB-normal data often perform poorly in the edge cases of reflective, textureless, and dark surfaces. Polarization encodes surface orientation independently of texture and albedo,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Irene Kim , Sai Tanmay Reddy Chakkera , Alexandros Graikos , Dimitris Samaras , Akshat Dave

There are two main algorithmic approaches to sparse signal recovery: geometric and combinatorial. The geometric approach starts with a geometric constraint on the measurement matrix and then uses linear programming to decode information…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-04-30 R. Berinde , A. C. Gilbert , P. Indyk , H. Karloff , M. J. Strauss

Polarimetric imaging can provide valuable information about biological samples in a wide range of applications. Detrimental scattering however currently limits the imaging depth of in-vivo imaging to approximately 1 transport mean free…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-28 Kai Ling C. Seow , Peter Török , Matthew R. Foreman

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

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

An arbitrary lossless transformation in high-dimensional quantum space can be decomposed into elementary operations which are easy to implement, and an effective decomposition algorithm is important for constructing high-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Dong-Xu Chen , Junliang Jia , Pei Zhang , Chui-Ping Yang

We present experimental results on a method to perform polarimetry on ensembles of single photons. Our setup is based on a measurement method known to be optimal for estimating the state of two level systems. The setup has no moving parts…

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