Title
Hardware validated unified model of multibit temporally and spatially oversampled image sensors with conditional reset
Abstract
We describe a photon statistics-based theoretical model of the response to incident light of an image sensor and show that conditional reset and multibit temporal oversampling increase the dynamic range significantly. This photon-based modeling approach describes the full image sensor design space of temporal and spatial oversampling either with a binary comparison or with a multibit read of each sample. We find excellent quantitative agreement between measurements on custom hardware and our theoretical predictions. We then use this model to show what improvements in dynamic range and low-light response can be achieved by oversampling and what the limits of improvement caused by pixel size and lens parameters are. (C) The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1117/1.JEI.23.1.013021
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING
Keywords
Field
DocType
image sensors,image reconstruction,photons,noise
Ray,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Unified Model,Binary number,Computer vision,Dynamic range,Image sensor,Oversampling,Simulation,Algorithm,Pixel,Sampling (statistics)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
1
1017-9909
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.52
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Vogelsang120.86
David G. Stork2627106.17
Michael Guidash330.93