Image Denoising Algorithms for DoFP Polarization Image Sensors with Non-Gaussian Noises

Wang, Biyin; Li, Shiting; Fraser, Michael; Abubakar, Abubakar; Pan, Xiaofang; Zhao, Xiaojin

doi:10.1109/apccas.2018.8605608

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“…30,31,34 Others used Gaussian processes to do the interpolation and combine it with an additional denoising. 35 The denoising algorithms were, in turn, expanded upon to include non-gaussian noise sources., 36 and an overall analysis of the impact of noise on reconstruction/demosaicing algorithms was performed. 37 Making use of the correlation between superpixels, others have used guided filtering to remove aliasing effects.…”

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Sub-percent characterization and polarimetric performance analysis of commercial micro-polarizer array detectors

Stockmans,

Scheinowitz,

van der Linden

et al. 2024

Polarization: Measurement, Analysis, and Remote Sensing XVI

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Polarization imaging can yield crucial information in multiple applications of remote sensing, such as characterization of clouds, aerosols, and the Aurora Borealis. Some applications require sub-percent polarimetric sensitivity and accuracy in determining the Stokes parameters, which can be a challenge to attain. In 2018, Sony released a low-cost CMOS-based imaging chip with integrated micro-polarizer array for general polarization measurements. We implement the calibration steps required for these Sony chips to reach sub-percent polarimetric accuracies. To analyze their performances, we have compared the characteristics of four different detector packages by three manufacturers housing either the monochromatic version or the RGB color variant. We present a comprehensive overview of the effects that these characteristics have on the polarimetric performance of the camera. They include dark noise, behavior over different gain settings, detector/pixel artifacts, and polarimetric effects determined by polarizer extinction ratios, polarizer orientations, and accuracy of polarimetric zero points due to differential pixel gains. In addition to calibrations using unpolarized light and fully linearly polarized light, we assess the polarimetric sensitivity within a tilting and rotating glass-plate set-up. We discuss the benefits of adding a rotating half-wave plate as an additional temporal modulator to generically mitigate some of the detector effects, and achieve better polarimetric sensitivity/accuracy albeit at the expense of lower temporal resolution. We conclude by presenting and discussing the polarimetric limits to which we were able to calibrate the detector effects for practical purposes. By reaching a compound absolute polarimetric uncertainty of less than a percent, these very compact, low-cost detectors are enabled for a multitude of scientific goals.

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