Multi-band Polarization Imaging and Applications

Multi-band Optical Polarization Imaging and Application introduces the optical multi-band polarization imaging theory and the utilization of the multi-band polarimetric information for detecting the camouflage object and the optical hidden marker, and enhancing the visibility in bad weather and water. The book describes systematically and in detail the basic optical polarimetry theory; provides abundant multi-band polarimetric imaging experiment data; and indicates practical evaluation methods for designing the multi-band polarization imager, for analyzing and modeling the object’s multi-band polarization characteristics, and for enhancing the vision performance in scattering media. This book shows the latest research results of multi-band polarimetric vision, especially in camouflage object detection, optical hidden marker detection and multi-band polarimetric imagery fusion. From this book, readers can get a complete understanding about multi-band polarimetric imaging and its application in different vision tasks. Quan Pan is the Dean of the Automation School of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China; Yong-Qiang Zhao is an Associate Professor at NPU, China.

Quan Pan received the B.E. degree from Huazhong Institute of Technology in 1991, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Automation School at Northwestern Polytechnic University (NPU) in 1991 and 1997, respectively. He is a professor of the Automation School, and the Director of Research Institute of Control & Information of NPU from 1998. He is the Duty Dean of Graduate School of NPU from 1996 to 2002, the Duty Dean of Management School of NPU from 2002 to 2004, and the Director of Office of Development and Planning of NPU from 2004 to 2009. Now he is the Dean of the Automation School of NPU from 2009.
His research interests include information fusion, hybrid system estimation theory, multi-scale estimation theory, target tracking and image processing. He is a Member of IEEE, a Member of the International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF), a Board Member of the Chinese Association of Automation, and a Member of Chinese Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has published 6 books, and almost 40 international journal papers, including IEEE TAC, IEEE TSP and Automatica. He obtained the 6th Chinese National Youth Award for Outstanding Contribution to Science and Technology in 1998 and the Chinese National New Century Excellent Professional Talent in 2000. His e-mail is quanpan@nwpu.edu.cn.

Yong-Qiang Zhao received the B.S. degree in automation and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control theory and control engineering from the Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi’an, China, in 1998, 2001, and 2004, respectively. From 2007 to 2009, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada and Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with Northwestern Polytechnic University
His research interests include polarimetric Vision, imaging spectrometry, information fusion, pattern recognition and image processing. He is a Member of IEEE, a Member of the International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF).