title: Estimation precision of the degree of polarization from a single speckle intensity image.
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.
authors.affiliation: Physics and Image Processing Group/Fresnel Institute UMR CNRS 6133, Ecole Central de Marseille, Domaine Universitaire de Saint-Jérôme, Marseille, France. philippe.refregier@fresnel.fr
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Réfrégier
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fade
authors.forename: Muriel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roche