arXiv Computer Vision

PolarScale: A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Radiometrically Consistent RGB-to-Stokes Estimation

PolarScale is a new benchmark that explicitly requires models to predict the radiometric scale needed for full Stokes reconstruction from a per-scene normalized total‑intensity image. It evaluates models on normalized Stokes components, AoLP/DoLP/DoCP, and a per‑scene scale, using metrics that include angular, self‑consistency, and physical‑bound checks. Across seven restoration‑based and generative backbones, the best restoration models achieve a 3.6‑4.3% mean relative error in scale estimation, outperforming a constant‑scale control and maintaining physical plausibility.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28

Learning Polarization Image Restoration with General Restoration Priors

The paper presents an all-in-one framework for restoring polarization images affected by multiple coupled degradations. It identifies the normalized Stokes representation as effective for separating intensity and polarization, and introduces a dual-branch architecture that uses pretrained general restoration priors for the intensity branch while transferring knowledge to the polarization branch via cross-domain feature transform. A composite-degradation benchmark is also established to support future research.

By Chenggong Li, Jinhao Liu, Caiyun Wu, Yidong Luo, Junchao Zhang, Degui Yang
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Beyond Visual Fidelity: Benchmarking Super-Resolution Models for Large-Scale Remote Sensing Imagery via Downstream Task Integration

arXiv:2605. 00310v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Super-resolution (SR) techniques have made major advances in reconstructing high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs.

By Zhili Li, Kangyang Chai, Zhihao Wang, Xiaowei Jia, Yanhua Li, Gengchen Mai, Sergii Skakun, Dinesh Manocha, Yiqun Xie