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Empirical Characterization of Camera Noise

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Abstract

Noise characterization is important for several image processing operations such as denoising, thresholding, and HDR. This contribution describes a simple procedure to estimate the noise at an image for a particular camera as a function of exposure parameters (shutter time, gain) and of the irradiance at the pixel. Results are presented for a Pointgrey Firefly camera and are compared with a standard theoretical model of noise variance. Although the general characteristic of the noise reflects what predicted by the theoretical model, a number of discrepancies are found that deserve further investigation.

Keywords

  • Noise Variance
  • Exposure Parameter
  • Gamma Correction
  • Exposure Setting
  • CMOS Image Sensor

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  1. University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

    Jeremy Baumgartner & Roberto Manduchi

  2. Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany

    Markus Hinsche

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  1. Jeremy Baumgartner
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  1. Computer Science Department, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Luis Enrique Erro #1, Santa Maria Tonantzintla, Puebla, México

    Jesús Ariel Carrasco-Ochoa

  2. Computer Science Department, José Francisco Martínez-Trinidad, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Luis Enrique Erro No. 1, 72840, Sta. Maria Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico

    José Francisco Martínez-Trinidad

  3. Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Cerro Blanco 141, 76090, Colinas del Cimatario, Querétaro, México

    Joaquín Salas Rodríguez

  4. Institute of Cybernetics “E. Caianiello”, CNR, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078, Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy

    Gabriella Sanniti di Baja

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Baumgartner, J., Hinsche, M., Manduchi, R. (2013). Empirical Characterization of Camera Noise. In: Carrasco-Ochoa, J.A., Martínez-Trinidad, J.F., Rodríguez, J.S., di Baja, G.S. (eds) Pattern Recognition. MCPR 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7914. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38989-4_1

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