Processed images of HD 142527 (top row) and HD 161743 (bottom row) in H band. From left to right: intensity image (I) in logarithmic scale, Stokes Q, U and P_I images in linear scale. For comparison purposes, HD 161743 has been scaled by an arbitrary factor. Units are given in counts. The area corresponding to the saturated pixels (r_sat ≤ 0.32′′) in HD 142527 has been masked out in all images. The polarized images of HD 142527 show a complex structure, while the comparison star only shows remnant noise. In all images north is up and east is left. This applies to all the figures in this paper.