The Mueller Matrix-Stokes Vector Representation Of Surface Scattering

Bickel, William S.; Hsu, June Yann; Chiao, Shu-Chung; Abromson, David; Iafelice, Vince

doi:10.1117/12.944291

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“…Fresnel relfection) and an ideal depolarizer. Early Mueller pBSDF work by Bickel et al defined polarizing interactions as arising from perturbations to an idealized smooth surface [5]. Bickel et al pointed to an idealized Lambertian surface as the "opposite case" to a perfectly smooth surface and posited that all "real-world surfaces" lie between an ideally smooth and ideally Lambertian surface texture.…”

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Merit functions and measurement schemes for single parameter depolarization models

Kupinski

2021

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Mueller polarized bi-directional scattering distribution functions (pBSDFs) are 4 × 4 matrix-valued functions which depend on acquisition geometry. The most popular pBSDF is a weighted sum between a Fresnel matrix and an ideal depolarizer. This work's main contribution is relating the relative weight between an ideal depolarizer and Fresnel matrix to a single depolarization parameter. Rather than a 16-dimensional matrix norm, this parameter can form a one-dimensional merit function. Then, instead of a full Mueller matrix measurement, a scheme for pBSDF fitting to only two polarimetric measurements is introduced. Depolarization can be mathematically expressed as the incoherent addition of coherent states [1]. This work shows that, for a Mueller matrix to be in the span of a Fresnel matrix and an ideal depolarizer, the weights in the incoherent addition are triply degenerate. This triple degeneracy is observed in five different colored opaque plastics treated with nine different surface textures and measured at varying acquisition geometries and wavebands.

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