A stand-alone polarimetric acquisition system for producing a long-term skylight dataset

Опубликовано: 10 Май 2025
на канале: Julien Serres - His personal Youtube channel

A stand-alone polarimetric acquisition system for producing a long-term skylight dataset by ©Léo Poughon (2023)

Summary.
Skylight polarization phenomenon is at the origin of a recent growing interest for bio-inspired navigation. Skylightbased orientation sensors can be simulated on the basis of physical models. In parallel, machine learning algorithms require a large amount of data to be trained. However, while some simulated databases already exists in the literature, a public database composed of real-world color polarimetric images of the sky in various weather conditions does not. In this study, a long-term experimental device is presented, designed to be left in a distant roof to acquire data over several months, using a Division-of-Focal-Plane polarization imager with a fisheye lens mounted on a rotative telescope mount. An open-source mechanical and electrical design is proposed for easy replication at other locations, with an algorithm to get the sensor's orientation and geometrical calibration in the East-North-Up frame. A sample one-month long dataset is provided on a public archive.

References:
Poughon, L., Aubry, V., Monnoyer, J., Viollet, S., & Serres, J. R. (2023, October). A stand-alone polarimetric acquisition system for producing a long-term skylight dataset. In 2023 IEEE SENSORS (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SENSORS569...
HAL: https://amu.hal.science/hal-04267766/
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