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Estimation precision of the degree of polarization from a single speckle intensity image
Philippe Réfrégier1, Julien Fade, Muriel Roche
1Physics and Image Processing Group/Fresnel Institute UMR CNRS 6133, Ecole Central de Marseille, Domaine Universitaire de Saint-Jérôme, Marseille, France. philippe.refregier@fresnel.fr
Abstract:
We address the problem of the estimation of the degree of polarization from a single intensity image. For that purpose, one considers the case of coherent active imagery that leads to speckle fluctuations and assumes that the measured intensity image corresponds to a fully developed speckle for each polarized component of the electric field. In particular, we determine the Cramer-Rao bound of the degree of polarization estimation and propose to illustrate this result by analyzing the variance of different simple estimators.
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