Multiresolution scanning imager with spatially uniform noise response based on a new class of Hadamard masks

Donald J. Bone; Dan C. Popescu

doi:10.1117/12.385462

15 May 2000 Multiresolution scanning imager with spatially uniform noise response based on a new class of Hadamard masks

Donald J. Bone, Dan C. Popescu

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Proceedings Volume 3965, Sensors and Camera Systems for Scientific, Industrial, and Digital Photography Applications; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.385462
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

In spite the prodigious growth in the market for digital cameras, they have yet to displace film-based cameras in the consumer market. This is largely due to the high cost of photographic resolution sensors. One possible approach to producing a low cost, high resolution sensor is to linearly scan a masked low resolution sensor. Masking of the sensor elements allows transform domain imaging. Multiple displaced exposures of such a masked sensor permits the device to acquire a linear transform of a higher resolution representation of the image than that defined by the sensor element dimensions. Various approaches have been developed in the past along these lines, but they often suffer from poor sensitivity, difficulty in being adapted to a 2D sensor or spatially variable noise response. This paper presents an approach based on a new class of Hadamard masks--Uniform Noise Hadamard Masks--which has superior sensitivity to simple sampling approaches and retains the multiresolution capabilities of certain Hadamard matrices, while overcoming the non-uniform noise response problems of some simple Hadamard based masks.

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Donald J. Bone and Dan C. Popescu "Multiresolution scanning imager with spatially uniform noise response based on a new class of Hadamard masks", Proc. SPIE 3965, Sensors and Camera Systems for Scientific, Industrial, and Digital Photography Applications, (15 May 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.385462

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