arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 7

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.

By Beibei Lin, Tingting Chen, Xin Zhang, Wenhao Zhao, Dongjun Li, Zifeng Yuan
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 19

UniPolar: Joint Image and Polarimetric Restoration under Compound Degradations via Physical Consistency Learning

UniPolar is a new framework for restoring images and polarimetric data from color polarization filter array (CPFA) images that suffer from both device- and environment-induced degradations. It uses two complementary streams to reconstruct four polarization-angle images and predict Stokes difference components, coordinating them with a Degradation Conditioned Cross Domain Interaction module that exchanges frequency-selective evidence and applies condition-adaptive feature correction. The method also enforces physical consistency at the output level, aligning image-derived and directly predicted Stokes components while regularizing angular fidelity and the physical feasibility of degree of linear polarization (DoLP).

By Yang Jin, Guangyu Guo, Linghao Shen, Binglu Wang
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