Abstract
The optimum linear combination channels for an N-receptor polarization-sensitive imaging or vision system are found by using a principal-components analysis. The channels that are derived are optimum in the sense that their information contents are uncorrelated when considered over the ensemble of possible polarization signals. For a two-receptor system, the optimum channels are shown to be the sum and the difference of the outputs of the individual receptors. As a corollary, the optimal arrangement of the two receptors is shown to be a mosaic of identical, orthogonally aligned linear polarization analyzers. The implications of these results on the development of a representational scheme for polarization information are discussed.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 359-366 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| State | Published - 1998 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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Optimum linear combination strategy for an N-channel polarization-sensitive imaging or vision system. / Tyo, J Scott.
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