Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 53, Issue 3, 20240057(2024)

Research progress on polarimetric imaging technology in complex environments based on deep learning (invited)

Haofeng Hu1,2, Yizhao Huang2, Zhen Zhu1, Qianwen Ma1, Jingsheng Zhai1, and Xiaobo Li1、*
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  • 1School of Marine Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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    General polarization imaging system (Blue optical components represent polarizers, and gray optical components represent waveplates)
    Degradation mechanism of polarization images in complex environments
    The general workflow of polarization imaging technology in complex environments based on deep learning
    Polarization imaging process in the water scattering environment[19]
    (a) PDN network structure; (b) PDN network restoration effect[53]
    (a1)-(b1) Original image captured directly in the turbid underwater scene; (a2)-(b2) 3D reconstruction result of the restoration image[56]
    (a) The structure of the U2R-pGAN; (b) Restoration results (The first row shows the light intensity images and the second row displays the restoration images)[60]
    (a) The proposed network structure; (b) Foggy image synthesis process; (c) Distant scene restoration effect[49]
    Noise transfer when calculating polarization parameters (The red rectangle indicates the enlarged area)
    (a) The structure of PDRDN; (b) The structure of residual dense block; (c) Comparison between polarization parameter restoration effect and ground truth; (d) Restoration effects of different materials[71]
    Model test performance under optically captured polarization images in the low light environment (8 photons/pixel)[72]
    (a) The flowchart of Pol2Pol method; (b) The workflow of polarization generator; (c) Comparation on restoration effects of different materials[79]
    Restoration effects of different materials based on channel attention mechanism method[80]
    • Table 1. Summary of representative work on deep learning polarization imaging in the complex environments

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      Table 1. Summary of representative work on deep learning polarization imaging in the complex environments

      TaskReferenceTraining methodCharacteristics of representative work
      Descattering[53]Supervised/data-drivenProposing for the first time using residual dense network to achieve underwater polarization images descattering
      [55]Supervised/data-drivenDescattering with high turbidity water
      [56]Supervised/data-drivenAchieving high-precision three-dimensional imaging of targets in the turbid water
      [57]Supervised/data-drivenUsing Monte Carlo simulation algorithm to simulate the polarization information degradation process
      [60]Unsupervised/data-drivenTraining does not require paired datasets
      [62]Self-supervised/data-drivenUsing physical degradation model to generate pseudo-label data to drive network training
      [63]Self-supervised/data-drivenUsing the Stokes-based descattering model to replace the network backpropagation process
      [49]Supervised/physical model embeddedEmbedding physical degradation model in the network and the key parameters of the model are fitted
      [66]Supervised/physical model embeddedIntegrating physical model parameters to reduce the degree of freedom of network fitting
      [67]Supervised/prior knowledge guidanceUsing the spectral information of the light intensity image to input the gating network to assign sub-network weights
      Denoising[71]Supervised/data-drivenProposing for the first time low-light environment polarization images denoising
      [72]Supervised/data-drivenProposing three-dimensional polarization images denoising with low illumination and partial occlusion
      [74]Supervised/data-drivenDenoising with color polarization images
      [76]Supervised/data-drivenUsing transfer learning method to achieve small sample data polarization images denoising
      [77]Unsupervised/data-drivenTraining does not require paired datasets
      [79]Self-supervised/data-drivenUsing the polarization generator to implement self-supervised training to achieve the polarization images denoising effect of supervised training
      [80]Supervised/data-drivenExploring the underlying principles of polarization images denoising from the perspective of feature map screening by attention mechanism
      [81]Supervised/data-drivenAnalyzing the reasons for maintaining the relationship between polarization information during network training from the perspective of feature maps
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    Haofeng Hu, Yizhao Huang, Zhen Zhu, Qianwen Ma, Jingsheng Zhai, Xiaobo Li. Research progress on polarimetric imaging technology in complex environments based on deep learning (invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2024, 53(3): 20240057

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    Received: Jan. 31, 2024

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jun. 21, 2024

    The Author Email: Li Xiaobo (lixiaobo@tju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20240057

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