Abstract
The degree of polarization (DOP) is an important tool in many optical measurement and imaging applications. We address the problem of its estimation in images that are perturbed with both speckle and photon noise, by determining the Cramer–Rao lower bounds (CRLBs ) when the illuminated materials are purely depolarizing. We demonstrate that the CRLBs are simply the sum of the CRLBs due to speckle noise and Poisson noise. We use this result to analyze the influence of different optical parameters on DOP estimation.
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