Modeling the imaging chain of digital cameras
By: Robert D. Fiete
Contributors: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
Series: Tutorial texts in optical engineering -- v. TT 92
Publisher: SPIE
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bellingham, Wash
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780819483362; 9780819483393
Subjects: Digital cameras; Photographic optics; Mathematics; Mathematical models; Photography; Digital techniques
Other titles: Imaging chain of digital cameras; SPIE digital library.; SPIE eBooks.
Description: The process by which an image is formed, processed, and displayed can be conceptualized as a chain of physical events called the imaging chain. By mathematically modeling the imaging chain, we can gain insight into the relationship between the camera design parameters and the resulting image quality. The mathematical models can also be used to optimize and assess the design of a camera for specific applications before expenditures are committed to building hardware. Modeling the Imaging Chain of Digital Cameras teaches the key elements of the end-to-end imaging chain for digital camera systems and describes how elements of the imaging chain are mathematically modeled using the basics of linear systems mathematics and Fourier transforms. The emphasis is on general digital cameras designed to image incoherent light in the visible imaging spectrum. The reader will learn how digital camera design parameters are related to the elements of the imaging chain and how they influence the resulting image quality. The book also discusses the use of imaging chain models to simulate images from different digital camera designs for image quality evaluations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. The importance of modeling the imaging chain; title: Chapter 2. The imaging chain and applications; title: Chapter 3. Mathematics; title: Chapter 4. Radiometry; title: Chapter 5. Optics; title: Chapter 6. Digital sensors; title: Chapter 7. Motion; title: Chapter 8. The story of Q; title: Chapter 9. Image enhancement processing; title: Chapter 10. Display; title: Chapter 11. Image interpretability; title: Chapter 12. Image simulations.