Characterizing digital image acquisition devices

Stephen E. Reichenbach; Stephen K. Park; Ramkumar Narayanswamy

doi:10.1117/12.55783

1 February 1991 Characterizing digital image acquisition devices

Stephen E. Reichenbach, Stephen K. Park, Ramkumar Narayanswamy

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 30, Issue 2, (February 1991). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.55783

Abstract

Despite the popularity of digital imaging devices (e.g., CCD array cameras) the problem of accurately characterizing the spatial frequency response of such systems has been largely neglected in the literature. This paper describes a simple method for accurately estimating the optical transfer function of digital image acquisition devices. The method is based on the traditional knife-edge technique but explicitly deals with fundamental sampled system considerations: insufficient and anisotropic sampling. Results for both simulated and real imaging systems demonstrate the accuracy of the method.

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Stephen E. Reichenbach, Stephen K. Park, and Ramkumar Narayanswamy "Characterizing digital image acquisition devices," Optical Engineering 30(2), (1 February 1991). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.55783

Published: 1 February 1991

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