Polarisation analysis functions

Polarisation toolbox

This zip file contains:

  • SunPositionCalculator - Calculates the sun position given time of day and latitude.
  • PolAngle_Model - Calculates the angle of polarisation for a zenith-centred hemisphere based on either the single or double-scattering sky polarisation model. Use in conjunction with SunPosCalculator to generate a model for a particular time and latitude.
  • PolDegree - Calculates the polarisation degree for the sky hemisphere, given the solar azimuthal angle and elevation. Use in conjunction with SunPosCalculator to generate a model for a particular time and latitude. Uses only the single-scattering sky model.
  • StokesReconstruction - Reconstructs the polarisation angle and degree based on four orthogonal images (can be colour or greyscale), using the Stokes equations.
  • IntensityReconstruction - Reconstructs the polarisation angle and degree based on four not-necessarily orthogonal images (can be colour or greyscale). Requires knowledge of the angle offsets between images.
  • AngleDegree_Image_Combo - Combines the polarisation angle and degree into a single image, where the colour scheme represents the angle and the brightness represents the degree. Use in conjunction with StokesReconstruction or ImageReconstruction to generate images straight from raw footage.

Insect tracking programs

Bee Tracker Toolbox

a GUI-based set of functions designed to track the location and axial angle of objects in cluttered environments. Can be used on manual or automatic settings.

Locust Wing-beat tracker - a GUI designed to track the position of a locust wing in a series of black-and-white video images, and read the wingbeat periodicity from a digital display. As it stands, probably too finely tuned and esoteric to be much use to anyone, but some of the functions may be usefully repurposed.

Bulletin

  • made a little light following robot but he keeps running into walls and knocking his top off.
  • training NN (LLM) for sky pattern recognition
  • haptics talk by Heinrich Bülthoff
  • modelling first-order neuronal response of locust DRA ommatidia

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