Title
Unsupervised Estimation of Signal-Dependent CCD Camera Noise.
Abstract
This article deals with an original method to estimate the noise introduced by optical imaging systems, such as CCD cameras. The power of the signal-dependent photon noise is decoupled from the power of the signal-independent electronic noise. The method relies on the multivariate regression of sample mean and variance. Statistically similar image pixels, not necessarily connected, produce scatterpoints that are clustered along a straight line, whose slope and intercept measure the signal-dependent and signal-independent components of the noise power, respectively. Experimental results carried out on a simulated noisy image and on true data from a commercial CCD camera highlight the accuracy of the proposed method and its applicability to separate R–G–B components that have been corrected for the nonlinear effects of the camera response function, but not yet interpolated to the the full size of the mosaiced R–G–B image.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1186/1687-6180-2012-231
EURASIP J. Adv. Sig. Proc.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Noise Model, Image Space, Noisy Image, Noise Estimation, Gravity Center
Line (geometry),Computer vision,Value noise,Noise power,Computer science,Interpolation,Noise (electronics),Dark-frame subtraction,Image noise,Artificial intelligence,Pixel
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2012
1
1687-6180
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.54
12
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bruno Aiazzi127527.84
Luciano Alparone290180.27
Stefano Baronti355950.87
Massimo Selva4877.92
Lorenzo Stefani5101.58