Polarization Image Recognition Based on Cascade Deep Learning

Jinshan Li, Hantang Chen, Xu Ma*, Weili Chen

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Polarization imaging technology integrates the spatial and polarization information of the target scene, which can provide high-dimensional light field information to improve the ability of object detection and recognition. The polarization states of natural scenes can be characterized by the Stokes vector (S0 , S1 , S2 ), degree of polarization (DoP ) and angle of polarization (AoP ). In order to better understand and utilize the polarization characteristics, the observers need to recognize the feature maps of different polarization parameters. These images are sometimes hard to distinguish with naked eyes, especially for S1 and S2 images due to their similarity. This paper proposes a polarization image recognition method based on the cascade deep learning approach, which can improve the discrimination between S1 and S2 images, and achieve preferable recognition accuracy for different kinds of polarization images. We use two ResNet-50 networks successively to classify the polarization images. Firstly, a ResNet-50 network is used to recognize S0 , S12 , DoP and AoP images, where S12 means the union set of S1 and S2 images. Next, the Sobel operation is applied to enhance the discrimination of polarization characteristics between S1 and S2 images. After that, the second ResNet-50 network is used to separate the images of S1 and S2 . It shows that the proposed method outperforms some other comparative methods in terms of recognition accuracy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThird International Conference on Optics and Image Processing, ICOIP 2023
EditorsBingxiang Li, Chao Ren
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510667426
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event3rd International Conference on Optics and Image Processing, ICOIP 2023 - Hangzhou, China
Duration: 14 Apr 202316 Apr 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume12747
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Optics and Image Processing, ICOIP 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHangzhou
Period14/04/2316/04/23

Keywords

  • Polarization imaging
  • Sobel operation
  • deep learning
  • image recognition

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