Polarization in diffractive optics and metasurfaces

NA Rubin, Z Shi, F Capasso - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Polarization, the path traced by light's electric field vector, appears in all areas of optics. In
recent decades, various technologies have enabled the precise control of light's polarization …

High-quality indoor scene 3D reconstruction with RGB-D cameras: A brief review

J Li, W Gao, Y Wu, Y Liu, Y Shen - Computational Visual Media, 2022 - Springer
High-quality 3D reconstruction is an important topic in computer graphics and computer
vision with many applications, such as robotics and augmented reality. The advent of …

Glass segmentation using intensity and spectral polarization cues

H Mei, B Dong, W Dong, J Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Transparent and semi-transparent materials pose significant challenges for existing scene
understanding and segmentation algorithms due to their lack of RGB texture which impedes …

Polarization multiplexed diffractive computing: all-optical implementation of a group of linear transformations through a polarization-encoded diffractive network

J Li, YC Hung, O Kulce, D Mengu… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Research on optical computing has recently attracted significant attention due to the
transformative advances in machine learning. Among different approaches, diffractive …

High quality 3D reconstruction based on fusion of polarization imaging and binocular stereo vision

X Tian, R Liu, Z Wang, J Ma - Information Fusion, 2022 - Elsevier
Polarization imaging can retrieve inaccurate objects' 3D shapes with fine textures, whereas
coarse but accurate depths can be provided by binocular stereo vision. To take full …

Deep polarization cues for transparent object segmentation

A Kalra, V Taamazyan, SK Rao… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Segmentation of transparent objects is a hard, open problem in computer vision.
Transparent objects lack texture of their own, adopting instead the texture of scene …

Depth estimation from camera image and mmwave radar point cloud

AD Singh, Y Ba, A Sarker, H Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a method for inferring dense depth from a camera image and a sparse noisy
radar point cloud. We first describe the mechanics behind mmWave radar point cloud …

Shape from polarization for complex scenes in the wild

C Lei, C Qi, J Xie, N Fan, V Koltun… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a new data-driven approach with physics-based priors to scene-level normal
estimation from a single polarization image. Existing shape from polarization (SfP) works …

Nero: Neural geometry and brdf reconstruction of reflective objects from multiview images

Y Liu, P Wang, C Lin, X Long, J Wang, L Liu… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We present a neural rendering-based method called NeRO for reconstructing the geometry
and the BRDF of reflective objects from multiview images captured in an unknown …

Incorporating physics into data-driven computer vision

A Kadambi, C de Melo, CJ Hsieh… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Many computer vision techniques infer properties of our physical world from images.
Although images are formed through the physics of light and mechanics, computer vision …