README.md

---
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
tags:
  - polarization
  - computer-vision
  - physics-informed
  - stokes
  - image-encoding
language:
  - en
pretty_name: Polarization Encoding Dataset
task_categories:
  - image-to-image

---

# Polarization Encoding Dataset

This dataset provides processed polarization data suitable for PolarAnything.

It contains two main components:

- **S0/**: Unpolarized intensity images, representing the total light intensity (Stokes S0).
- **Polarization_Encoding/**: A 3-channel encoding of polarization information, where each channel represents:
  - Channel 0: sin(2 × AoLP)
  - Channel 1: cos(2 × AoLP)
  - Channel 2: Degree of Linear Polarization (DoLP)

## Usage

You can load this dataset via the Hugging Face `datasets` library:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("flztroro/PolarAnything")
```

Or browse the dataset files manually on the Hugging Face Hub.

## Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the following paper:

```
@misc{zhang2025polaranythingdiffusionbasedpolarimetricimage,
      title={PolarAnything: Diffusion-based Polarimetric Image Synthesis}, 
      author={Kailong Zhang and Youwei Lyu and Heng Guo and Si Li and Zhanyu Ma and Boxin Shi},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2507.17268},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17268}, 
}
```

## License

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC-4.0).