AUTHOR=Lapray Pierre-Jean , Thomas Jean-Baptiste , Farup Ivar TITLE=Bio-Inspired Multimodal Imaging in Reduced Visibility JOURNAL=Frontiers in Computer Science VOLUME=3 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computer-science/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2021.737144 DOI=10.3389/fcomp.2021.737144 ISSN=2624-9898 ABSTRACT=

The visual systems found in nature rely on capturing light under different modalities, in terms of spectral sensitivities and polarization sensitivities. Numerous imaging techniques are inspired by this variety, among which, the most famous is color imaging inspired by the trichromacy theory of the human visual system. We investigate the spectral and polarimetric properties of biological imaging systems that will lead to the best performance on scene imaging through haze, i.e., dehazing. We design a benchmark experiment based on modalities inspired by several visual systems, and adapt state-of-the-art image reconstruction algorithms to those modalities. We show the difference in performance of each studied systems and discuss it in front of our methodology and the statistical relevance of our data.