A collection of polarization-based models in computer vision, including shape from polarization, polarization-based reflection removal.

• Papers and Code
• Books
• Blogs
• Lecture Videos
• Datasets
• Workshops
• Researchers

A curated set of papers along with code.

• Polarization Wavefront Lidars: Learning to Recover Large-Scale Scene Information from Polarized Wavefronts, (2024), CVPR, [pdf].
• Robust Depth Enhancement via Polarization Prompt Fusion Tuning, (2024), CVPR, [pdf].
• High-Res Facial Appearance Capture from Polarized Smartphone Images, (2023), CVPR, [pdf].
• Sparse ellipsometry: portable acquisition of polarimetric SVBRDF and shape with unstructured flash photography, (2022), SIGGRAPH, [pdf] [code].
• Perspective Phase Angle Model for Polarimetric 3D Reconstruction, (2022), ECCV, [pdf].
• Shape from Polarization for Complex Scenes in the Wild, (2022), CVPR, code.
• PANDORA: Polarization-Aided Neural Decomposition Of Radiance, (2022), [[pdf]](PANDORA: Polarization-Aided Neural Decomposition Of Radiance).
• Transparent Shape from Single Polarization Images, (2022), [pdf].
• Polarimetric Helmholtz Stereopsis, (2021), ICCV.
• Polarimetric Normal Stereo, (2021), CVPR.
• Shape from Sky: Polarimetric Normal Recovery Under The Sky, (2021), CVPR.
• Deep Polarization Imaging for 3D Shape and SVBRDF Acquisition, (2021), CVPR.
• Polarimetric Monocular Dense Mapping Using Relative Deep Depth Prior, (2021), RAL.
• P2D: a self-supervised method for depth estimation from polarimetry, (2020), paper, dataset
• Deep Shape from Polarization, (2020), Yunhao Ba, Alex Ross Gilbert, Franklin Wang, Jinfa Yang, Rui Chen, Yiqin Wang, Lei Yan, Boxin Shi, Achuta Kadambi. [pdf] [website], dataset
• Depth from a polarisation + RGB stereo pair, (2019), Zhu, Dizhong and Smith, William AP. [pdf] [code]
• Mirror Surface Reconstruction Using Polarization Field, (2019), ICIP
• Polarimetric Relative Pose Estimation, (2019), Cui et al.
• Polarimetric Monocular Dense SLAM, (2018), Yang et al. [video]
• Shape-from-polarisation: a nonlinear least squares approach, (2017), [pdf] [code].
• Depth from stereo polarization in specular scenes for urban robotics, (2017)
• Polarisation photometric stereo, (2017)
• Polarimetric three-view geometry, (2018)
• Polarimetric multi-view stereo, (2017)
• Shape and light directions from shading and polarization, (2015)
• Polarized 3d: High-quality depth sensing with polarization cues, (2015)
• Direct method for shape recovery from polarization and shading, (2012)
• Shape and refractive index recovery from single-view polarisation images, (2010)
• Shape estimation using polarization and shading from two views, (2007)
• What is the range of surface reconstructions from a gradient field, (2006)
• Recovery of surface orientation from diffuse polarization, (2006)
• Polarization imaging applied to 3D reconstruction of specular metallic surfaces, (2005)
• Transparent surface modeling from a pair of polarization images, (2004)
• Polarization-based inverse rendering from a single view, (2003)
• Separating reflections and lighting using independent components analysis, (1999)

• Polarization guided HDR reconstruction via pixel-wise depolarization, (2023), TIP
• Polarization-aware low-light image enhancement, (2023), AAAI
• Learning to dehaze with polarization, (2021), NeurIPS
• Polarized Reflection Removal with Perfect Alignment in the Wild, (2020), Chenyang Lei, Xuhua Huang, Mengdi Zhang, Qiong Yan, Wenxiu Sun, and Qifeng Chen. [pdf] [code], CVPR. dataset
• Reflection separation using a pair of unpolarized and polarized images, (2019)
• Image dehazing using polarization effects of objects and airlight, (2014)
• A physically-based approach to reflection separation: from physical modeling to constrained optimization, (2013)
• Clear underwater vision, (2004)

• Glass Segmentation using Intensity and Spectral Polarization Cues, (2022), CVPR, [pdf] [code].
• Multimodal Material Segmentation, (2022), CVPR, [pdf] [code].
• Deep Snapshot HDR Reconstruction Based on the Polarization Camera, (2021), ICIP, [pdf].
• Deep Polarization Cues for Transparent Object Segmentation, (2020), dataset
• HDR Reconstruction Based on the Polarization Camera, (2020)
• A New Multimodal RGB and Polarimetric Image Dataset for Road Scenes Analysis, (2020), dataset
• Outdoor Scenes Pixel-wise Semantic Segmentation using Polarimetry and Fully Convolutional Network, (2019), datast
• Road scenes analysis in adverse weather conditions bypolarization-encoded images and adapted deep learning, (2019)
• Adapted learning for polarization-based car detection, (2019)

• Polarized Optical-Flow Gyroscope, (2020), ECCV
• Monochrome and color polarization demosaicking using edge-aware residual interpolation, (2020)
• Face Anti-Spoofing by Learning Polarization Cues in a Real-World Scenario, (2020)
• Survey of demosaicking methods for polarization filter array images, (2018)
• Simultaneous acquisition of polarimetric SVBRDF and normals., (2018)
• Polarization imaging reflectometry in the wild, (2017)
• Enhanced material classification using turbulence-degraded polarimetric imagery, (2010)
• Polarization phase-based method for material classification in computer vision, (1998)

• Field Guide to Polarization

• Boxin Shi
• Seung-Hwan Baek
• Felix Heide
• Actual Kadambi
• Zhaopeng Cui
• Chenyang Lei