Extended use of ISO 15739 incremental signal-to-noise ratio as reliability criterion for multiple-slope wide dynamic range image capture

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7242, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hertel, Dirk ^a  

^a TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection reliability; Image quality; Incremental signal to noise ratio; ISO 15739; Multiple slope imager; OECF; Wide dynamic range

Indexed keywords

DETECTION RELIABILITY; INCREMENTAL SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; ISO 15739; MULTIPLE-SLOPE IMAGER; OECF; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DROPS; IMAGE SENSORS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 62149115593     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.806063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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