A nonuniformity correction and radiometric calibration algorithm for infrared focal plane array is presented, combined
with two-point correction along the U-shaped blackbody rim. The format of Infrared Focal-Plane Array (IRFPA) is larger
and larger now; however, due to technical limitations and material defects in production, the drift of the IRFPA response
during their working is unavailable. It will leads to non-uniformity of the thermal imaging systems which has become an
important affect element of the efficiency for the practical use of the thermal imaging equipments. Point to the problems
of traditional radiation calibration and correction methods, we proposed a dynamic infrared calibration and correction
technology using U-shaped blackbody. With the help of blackbody in low and high temperature, two-point correction is
executed initially to perimeter detectors. Then based on the scene information and shift between adjacent frames, a
special algebraic algorithm is proposed to transport correction parameters from perimeter detectors to those interior
un-corrected ones. In this way, the correction parameters of the whole field of view (FOV) are calculated. The
temperature of the U-shaped blackbody is controllable, so dynamic infrared calibration can be done after nonuniformity
correction to modification the drift of the original calibration table. A U-shaped blackbody is designed and an
experimental platform is built to evaluate the algorithm. The U-shaped perimeter blackbody is designed to be able to
scale out periodically so as to continuously update the correction parameters. It proves to be able to achieve two-point
correction for accuracy, without covering the central FOV.
An effective neural network non-uniformity correction (NUC) algorithm based on DSP is proposed in this paper. The
non-uniform response in infrared focal plane array (IRFPA) detectors produces corrupted images with a fixed-pattern
noise(FPN).We introduced and analyzed the artificial neural network scene-based non-uniformity correction (SBNUC)
algorithm. A design of DSP-based NUC development platform for IRFPA is described. The DSP hardware platform
designed is of low power consumption, with 32-bit fixed point DSP TMS320DM643 as the kernel processor. The
dependability and expansibility of the software have been improved by DSP/BIOS real-time operating system and
Reference Framework 5. In order to realize real-time performance, the calibration parameters update is set at a lower
task priority then video input and output in DSP/BIOS. In this way, calibration parameters updating will not affect video
streams. The work flow of the system and the strategy of real-time realization are introduced. Experiments on real
infrared imaging sequences demonstrate that this algorithm requires only a few frames to obtain high quality corrections.
It is computationally efficient and suitable for all kinds of non-uniformity.
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