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A polarization camera has great potential for 3D reconstruction since the angle of polarization (AoP) of reflected light is related to an object's surface normal. In this paper, we propose a novel 3D reconstruction method called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Jinyu Zhao , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

Mask-based lensless imagers use simple optics and computational reconstruction to design compact form factor cameras with compressive imaging ability. However, these imagers generally suffer from poor reconstruction quality. Here, we…

Night vision is the ability to see in low-light conditions. However, conventional night vision imaging technology is limited by the requisite high-performance infrared focal plane array. In this article, we propose a novel scheme of color…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-15 Deyang Duan , Yunjie Xia

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…

Accurate segmentation of floating debris on water is often compromised by surface glare and changing outdoor illumination. Polarimetric imaging offers a single-sensor route to mitigate water-surface glare that disrupts semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Luis F. W. Batista , Tom Bourbon , Cedric Pradalier

In this work, we propose a novel method for the detailed reconstruction of transparent objects by exploiting polarimetric cues. Most of the existing methods usually lack sufficient constraints and suffer from the over-smooth problem. Hence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Mingqi Shao , Chongkun Xia , Dongxu Duan , Xueqian Wang

Signal reconstruction from a sample using an orthogonal projector onto a guiding subspace is theoretically well justified, but may be difficult to practically implement. We propose more general guiding operators, which increase signal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Andrew Knyazev , Alexander Malyshev

Lensless optical imaging eliminates the need for refractive optics, enabling compact and low-cost cameras with a large field-of-view, supporting point-of-care diagnostics and industrial monitoring. Practical deployments, however, remain…

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

A novel technique for polarization-multiplexing ghost imaging is proposed to simultaneously obtain multiple polarimetric information by a single detector. Here, polarization-division multiplexing speckles are employed for object…

Polarisation imaging is used to distinguish objects and surface characteristics that are otherwise not visible with black-and-white or colour imaging. Full-Stokes polarisation imaging allows complex image processing like water glint…

High dynamic range (HDR) images are important for a range of tasks, from navigation to consumer photography. Accordingly, a host of specialized HDR sensors have been developed, the most successful of which are based on capturing variable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Mingyang Xie , Matthew Chan , Christopher Metzler

We propose an original concept of compressive sensing (CS) polarimetric imaging based on a digital micro-mirror (DMD) array and two single-pixel detectors. The polarimetric sensitivity of the proposed setup is due to an experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Julien Fade , Estéban Perrotin , Jérôme Bobin

By using an optical device based on the integration of a GRaded-INdex (GRIN) rod lens and a single-mode optical fiber we efficiently collected photon pairs generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion. We show that this system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-09 Giuseppe Vallone , Gaia Donati , Francesco De Martini , Paolo Mataloni

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

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

Polarizing filters provide a powerful way to separate diffuse and specular reflection; however, traditional methods rely on several captures and require proper alignment of the filters. Recently, camera manufacturers have proposed to embed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Laurent Valentin Jospin , Gilles Baechler , Adam Scholefield

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

This paper proposes a novel learning based high-dynamic-range (HDR) reconstruction method using a polarization camera. We utilize a previous observation that polarization filters with different orientations can attenuate natural light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Juiwen Ting , Moein Shakeri , Hong Zhang

Night vision imaging is a technology that converts non-visible object to human eyes into visible image in night and other low light environments. However, the conventional night vision imaging can only directly produce grayscale image.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Deyang Duan , Yunjie Xia