Hai-zheng LIU, Ze-lin SHI, Bin FENG. Mechanism and calibration of non-uniformity for IR polarization imagery obtained with integrated micro-polarizer array[J]. Optics and precision engineering, 2018, 26(2): 480-491.
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Hai-zheng LIU, Ze-lin SHI, Bin FENG. Mechanism and calibration of non-uniformity for IR polarization imagery obtained with integrated micro-polarizer array[J]. Optics and precision engineering, 2018, 26(2): 480-491. DOI: 10.3788/OPE.20182602.0480.
Mechanism and calibration of non-uniformity for IR polarization imagery obtained with integrated micro-polarizer array
For an infrared imaging system integrated with a micro-polarizer array (MPA)
DoLP (degree of linear polarization) images are extremely sensitive to non-uniformity. Therefore
large error will occur when the non-uniformity is not calibrated. In order to calibrate the non-uniformity
a polarized-pixel model for optoelectronic conversion process was constructed by taking the incident light as a Stokes vector
and the non-uniformity generation mechanism under the combined effect of a micro-polarizer array (MPA) and an infrared FPA was analyzed based on incident stimulation and radiation response data. A non-uniformity calibration (NUC) method was presented to solve the gain vectors of each polarized pixel by constructing multiple groups of measurement equations. The method constructed a gain matrix of a super pixel by using gain vectors from neighboring polarized pixels and joint Stokes extraction matrix to solve the NUC matrix inversely. The experimental results prove that the calibration method proposed reduces non-uniformity by 5-20%
and improves the quality of DoLP images effectively.
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