Paper Info
Title
New image processing challenges for jointly designed electro-optical imaging systems
Abstract
Still-image processing algorithms are tailored to and depend crucially upon the properties of the class of images to which they are applied, for instance natural images in consumer digital cameras, medical images in fMRI machines, and binary text images in some photocopiers. We describe a new and possibly very important class of images and tasks for which traditional algorithms seem ill-suited, and for which new algorithms and general methods and concepts are required. This new class of images arises in imaging systems designed through new, joint optimization methods where the optics and the image processing are designed simultaneously in order to yield a high-quality digital image. These new design methods yield intermediate optical images that have unusual spatial, noise and chromatic properties ill-served by traditional image methods. Moreover, these new images present a number of novel challenges in image processing hardware implementations such as constrained space-variance. We describe these briefly new, joint methods for designing digital-optical imaging systems, characterize the intermediate optical images they yield, and some of the digital image processing challenges for producing high-quality still images from these sensed optical images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICIP.2009.5414318
Image Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
biomedical MRI,cameras,image processing,optical images,optical transfer function,photocopying,binary text images,consumer digital cameras,digital-optical imaging systems,electro-optical imaging systems,fMRI machines,image processing,point spread function
Computer vision,Imaging technology,Optical transfer function,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Image analysis,Image processing,Digital image,Artificial intelligence,Dynamic imaging,Digital image processing,Adaptive optics
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1522-4880 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-5655-0
978-1-4244-5655-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. Dirk Robinson1109454.54
David G. Stork200.34