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A Simple Method for Removing Reflection and Distortion from a Single Image
Abstract: This paper deals with a problem of removing reflection and distortion from un-natural images. This will effected in the quality of images. Reflection happens when there is the variation in direction of a wave front at an interface between two different media so that the wave front returns into the medium from which it originated. The law of reflection describes for specular reflection the angle at which wave is reflected equals the angle at which it is incident on the surface. Mirrors exhibit specular reflection. In photograph Distortion will happens when either the properties of the lens or the position of the camera relative to the subject. Here the input contains multiple polarized images with different polarizer angles. The output consists of high quality distortion and reflection separation from images. In this paper proposed a Quality Assessment method Scheme (QAMS) for removing both reflection and distortion from images. Using this QAMS method, the quality of the image can be improved by measuring PSNR and Error Rate
Single-shot layered reflectance separation using a polarized light field camera
We present a novel computational photography technique for single shot separation of diffuse/specular reflectance as well as novel angular domain separation of layered reflectance. Our solution consists of a two-way polarized light field (TPLF) camera which simultaneously captures two orthogonal states of polarization. A single photograph of a subject acquired with the TPLF camera under polarized illumination then enables standard separation of diffuse (depolarizing) and polarization preserving specular reflectance using light field sampling. We further demonstrate that the acquired data also enables novel angular separation of layered reflectance including separation of specular reflectance and single scattering in the polarization preserving component, and separation of shallow scattering from deep scattering in the depolarizing component. We apply our approach for efficient acquisition of facial reflectance including diffuse and specular normal maps, and novel separation of photometric normals into layered reflectance normals for layered facial renderings. We demonstrate our proposed single shot layered reflectance separation to be comparable to an existing multi-shot technique that relies on structured lighting while achieving separation results under a variety of illumination conditions
Photoelastic force measurements in granular materials
Photoelastic techniques are used to make both qualitative and quantitative
measurements of the forces within idealized granular materials. The method is
based on placing a birefringent granular material between a pair of polarizing
filters, so that each region of the material rotates the polarization of light
according to the amount of local of stress. In this review paper, we summarize
past work using the technique, describe the optics underlying the technique,
and illustrate how it can be used to quantitatively determine the vector
contact forces between particles in a 2D granular system. We provide a
description of software resources available to perform this task, as well as
key techniques and resources for building an experimental apparatus
Separating Reflection and Transmission Images in the Wild
The reflections caused by common semi-reflectors, such as glass windows, can
impact the performance of computer vision algorithms. State-of-the-art methods
can remove reflections on synthetic data and in controlled scenarios. However,
they are based on strong assumptions and do not generalize well to real-world
images. Contrary to a common misconception, real-world images are challenging
even when polarization information is used. We present a deep learning approach
to separate the reflected and the transmitted components of the recorded
irradiance, which explicitly uses the polarization properties of light. To
train it, we introduce an accurate synthetic data generation pipeline, which
simulates realistic reflections, including those generated by curved and
non-ideal surfaces, non-static scenes, and high-dynamic-range scenes.Comment: accepted at ECCV 201
PILOT: a balloon-borne experiment to measure the polarized FIR emission of dust grains in the interstellar medium
Future cosmology space missions will concentrate on measuring the
polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, which potentially carries
invaluable information about the earliest phases of the evolution of our
universe. Such ambitious projects will ultimately be limited by the sensitivity
of the instrument and by the accuracy at which polarized foreground emission
from our own Galaxy can be subtracted out. We present the PILOT balloon project
which will aim at characterizing one of these foreground sources, the
polarization of the dust continuum emission in the diffuse interstellar medium.
The PILOT experiment will also constitute a test-bed for using multiplexed
bolometer arrays for polarization measurements. We present the results of
ground tests obtained just before the first flight of the instrument.Comment: 17 pages, 13 figures. Presented at SPIE, Millimeter, Submillimeter,
and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII. To be
published in Proc. SPIE volume 915
H1 photonic crystal cavitites for hybrid quantum information protocols
Hybrid quantum information protocols are based on local qubits, such as
trapped atoms, NV centers, and quantum dots, coupled to photons. The coupling
is achieved through optical cavities. Here we demonstrate far-field optimized
H1 photonic crystal membrane cavities combined with an additional back
reflection mirror below the membrane that meet the optical requirements for
implementing hybrid quantum information protocols. Using numerical optimization
we find that 80% of the light can be radiated within an objective numerical
aperture of 0.8, and the coupling to a single-mode fiber can be as high as 92%.
We experimentally prove the unique external mode matching properties by
resonant reflection spectroscopy with a cavity mode visibility above 50%.Comment: 14 pages, 11 figure
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