Polarization mosaicking: high dynamic range and polarization imaging in a wide field of view

Yoav Yosef Schechner; Shree K. Nayar

doi:10.1117/12.507428

12 December 2003 Polarization mosaicing: high dynamic range and polarization imaging in a wide field of view

Yoav Yosef Schechner, Shree K. Nayar

Proceedings Volume 5158, Polarization Science and Remote Sensing; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.507428
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We present an approach for imaging the polarization state of scene points in a wide field of view, while enhancing the radiometric dynamic range of imaging systems. This is achieved by a simple modification of image mosaicking, which is a common technique in remote sensing. In traditional image mosaics, images taken in varying directions or positions are stitched to obtain a larger image. Yet, as the camera moves, it senses each scene point multiple times in overlapping regions of the raw frames. We rigidly attach to the camera a fixed, spatially varying polarization and attenuation filter. This way, the camera motion-induced multiple measurements per scene point are taken under different optical settings. This is in contrast to the redundant measurements of traditional mosaics. Computational algorithms then analyze the data to extract polarization imaging with high dynamic range across the mosaic field of view. We developed a Maximum Likelihood method to automatically register the images, in spite of the challenging spatially varying effects. Then, we use Maximum Likelihood to handle, in a single framework, variable exposures (due to transmittance variations), saturation, and partial polarization filtering. As a by product, these results enable polarization settings of cameras to change while the camera moves, alleviating the need for camera stability. This work demonstrates the modularity of the Generalized Mosaicing approach, which we recently introduced for multispectral image mosaics. The results are useful for the wealth of polarization imaging applications, in addition to mosaicking applications, particularly remote sensing. We demonstrate experimental results obtained using a system we built.

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Yoav Yosef Schechner and Shree K. Nayar "Polarization mosaicing: high dynamic range and polarization imaging in a wide field of view", Proc. SPIE 5158, Polarization Science and Remote Sensing, (12 December 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.507428

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