Abstract
Polarization parameters contain rich information on the micro- and macro-structure of scattering media. However, many of these parameters are sensitive to the spatial orientation of anisotropic media, and may not effectively reveal the microstructural information. In this paper, we take polarization images of different textile samples at different azimuth angles. The results demonstrate that the rotation insensitive polarization parameters from rotating linear polarization imaging and Mueller matrix transformation methods can be used to distinguish the characteristic features of different textile samples. Further examinations using both experiments and Monte Carlo simulations reveal that the residue rotation dependence in these polarization parameters is due to the oblique incidence illumination. This study shows that such rotation independent parameters are potentially capable of quantitatively classifying anisotropic samples, such as textiles or biological tissues.
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