Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-18-2022
Abstract
The design and initial experimental results from an event-based, rotating-polarizer, imaging polarimeter are presented. The speed of division-of-time imaging systems is traditionally constrained by the frame rate of the focal plane sensor and the need to sample several polarization angles during rotation. The asynchronous event reporting of event-based cameras (EBCs) frees these constraints but introduces challenges. The Stokes vectors used to describe polarization are based on irradiance, but EBCs are inherently change-detection systems that struggle to estimate irradiance. Two methods of estimating the polarization state without first recovering irradiance images are presented and compared. The DAVIS 346 sensor enables simultaneous recording of events with conventional frame-based images, enabling direct comparison of event-based polarization estimates to traditional techniques.
Source Publication
Optical Engineering
Recommended Citation
Michael Hawks and Michael Dexter "Event-based imaging polarimeter," Optical Engineering 61(5), 053101 (18 May 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.5.053101
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