We made quantitative detection analysis to infrared polarization characteristics of target using a non-real time infrared polarization detection system. First, the detection system must be calibrated, so according to our detection system, we presented a calibration method of doing radiometric calibration in four polarization detection channels. Second, based on the analysis of the infrared polarized mechanism, we made some theoretical simulation models. The target infrared radiation include spontaneous radiation and reflected radiation, and the combination of them lead to depolarization effect. The energy distribution between spontaneous and reflected radiation of the target is affected by target temperature, light conditions etc. So we created a experimental environment of low temperature and reflected radiation to validate theoretical model of spontaneous radiation, and found the experimental data has good consistency with theoretical prediction in a certain error range.
Based on characteristics that infrared polarization image can restrain background noise greatly and can be more sensitive to target edge information, a polarization image fusion algorithm based on oriented Laplacian pyramid is proposed in this paper. The method is mainly used in image fusion between the infrared radiation intensity image I and degree of polarization image P in order to increase the amount of information of the image. First, each Gaussian pyramid level is decomposed in different directions to get oriented Laplacian pyramid. Second, the oriented Laplacian pyramid level images of the image I and the image P are fused with the criterion of direction gradient to get fused oriented Laplacian pyramid level images. At last, the fused image is acquired by image reconstruction. The result of experiment shows that this method could add the polarization characteristics into the original intensity image, increase the image contrast and clarity, and make the overall visual effect better.
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