Analysis on errors due to photon noise and quantization process with multiple images

In the scenes with deflective and/or reflective medium such as fogs or mirrors, where the contrast levels among the intensity values of the pixels in the image are very small, even a small estimation improvement on the intensity value of each pixel could make a big difference for the perceptual qual...

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Main Authors: Li, Fulu, Mohan, Ankit, Raskar, Ramesh
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65842
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description In the scenes with deflective and/or reflective medium such as fogs or mirrors, where the contrast levels among the intensity values of the pixels in the image are very small, even a small estimation improvement on the intensity value of each pixel could make a big difference for the perceptual quality of the final image if we want to subtract the interference components from the original image. In this paper we analyze the average quantization error, total error and photon noise from multiple images with fixed and varied exposure time. We observe that by properly controlling and varying exposure time with multiple images, one can obtain an image with better performance than that of the conventional wisdom, where multiple images are taken repeatedly with the same exposure time.
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spelling mit-1721.1/658422022-09-26T09:57:41Z Analysis on errors due to photon noise and quantization process with multiple images Li, Fulu Mohan, Ankit Raskar, Ramesh Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Raskar, Ramesh Li, Fulu Mohan, Ankit Raskar, Ramesh In the scenes with deflective and/or reflective medium such as fogs or mirrors, where the contrast levels among the intensity values of the pixels in the image are very small, even a small estimation improvement on the intensity value of each pixel could make a big difference for the perceptual quality of the final image if we want to subtract the interference components from the original image. In this paper we analyze the average quantization error, total error and photon noise from multiple images with fixed and varied exposure time. We observe that by properly controlling and varying exposure time with multiple images, one can obtain an image with better performance than that of the conventional wisdom, where multiple images are taken repeatedly with the same exposure time. 2011-09-14T21:03:06Z 2011-09-14T21:03:06Z 2010-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-1-4244-7416-5 INSPEC Accession Number: 11305722 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65842 Li, Fulu et al. “Analysis on Errors Due to Photon Noise and Quantization Process with Multiple Images.” 2010 44th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS). Princeton, NJ, USA, 2010. 1-6. Copyright © 2010, IEEE https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3254-3224 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CISS.2010.5464908 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) 44th, 2010 Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE
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title_full Analysis on errors due to photon noise and quantization process with multiple images
title_fullStr Analysis on errors due to photon noise and quantization process with multiple images
title_full_unstemmed Analysis on errors due to photon noise and quantization process with multiple images
title_short Analysis on errors due to photon noise and quantization process with multiple images
title_sort analysis on errors due to photon noise and quantization process with multiple images
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