Employment of frame accumulation and shaped function for upgrading low-light-level image detection sensitivity

Optics Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1361-1363

  Li, Gang ^a   Tang, Hongying ^a   Kim, Dongsung ^b   Gao, Jean ^c   Lin, Ling ^d  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Soongsil University   (South Korea)

^c University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DETECTION SENSITIVITY; IMAGE DETECTION; IMAGE SIGNAL; LIGHT BEAM; LOW-LIGHT-LEVEL IMAGE; NOVEL METHODS; PROBABILITY STATISTIC; SAW-TOOTH SIGNALS; UNBIASED ESTIMATES; USING PROBABILITIES;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 84859767135     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.001361     Document Type: Article

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