title: Optimization of the contrast in active Stokes images.
abstract: Active Stokes imaging consists in illuminating a scene with polarized light and in measuring the Stokes vector of the scattered light. We present a method for determining the polarization state of illumination that maximizes the observed contrast between a target and the background when the scene is partially depolarizing and in the presence of additive Gaussian detection noise.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Campus Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. francois.goudail@institutoptique.fr
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Goudail