An Analysis of Camera Noise

  • Authors:
  • Robert A. Boie;Ingemar J. Cox

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

The class of cameras that are based on ionization sensors, which includes the most common charge-coupled device (CCD) and vidicon cameras, is examined. Camera signals are shown to be corrupted by direction-dependent stationary electronic noise sources and fluctuations due to the statistical nature of the sensing process. The authors develop and test a model of the inherent noises in cameras. These results are confirmed by measurement, and they suggest a locally stationary model of noise for adaptive signal processing.