Title
Deep Learning Approach to Structure from Polarization
Date of Award
2021
Degree Name
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor/Chair
Bradley Michael Ratliff
Abstract
Imaging polarimeters are a type of imaging device that attempts to estimate the polarized Stokes vector at each point in an imaged scene. Polarization has shown the ability to reduce background clutter, defeat atmospheric scatterers, improve scene contrast within polarized regions, and provide shape information about polarized objects of interest. Measured angle of polarization imagery tends to be highly correlated with the azimuthal component of object surface normal vectors. Hence, while polarimetric images do not directly provide 3D scene information, our goal in this work is to investigate the applicability of deep learning approaches for estimation of 3D structure from polarimetric image data. Unlike other image modalities, no repositories of polarimetric training data are readily available for training and testing purposes. As part of this work, we design a set of laboratory-based data collection experiments under a controlled set of scene conditions to obtain a sufficient set of polarimetric training and testing data. We then develop a deep learning approach to structure from polarization based upon the Pix2Pix conditional generative adversarial network for image translation problems. Initial results from training and testing our approach are presented that demonstrate promise for obtaining pixel-wise 3D information from polarimetric image data.
Keywords
Electrical Engineering, Optics, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Deep learning, polarization, 3D structure, Degree of linear polarization, Angle of polarization
Rights Statement
Copyright © 2021, author
Recommended Citation
Alazemi, Ahmad HMH,, "Deep Learning Approach to Structure from Polarization" (2021). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 7005.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/graduate_theses/7005