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Proposal and Verification of Image Sensor Non-uniformity Correction Algorithm  

Kim, Young-Sun (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Kong, Jong-Pil (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Heo, Haeng-Pal (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Park, Jong-Euk (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
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Abstract
All pixels of image sensor do not react uniformly even if the light of same radiance enters into the camera. This non-uniformity comes from the sensor pixel non-uniformity and non-uniformity induced by the changing transmission of the telescope over the field. The first contribution to the non-uniformity has high spatial frequency nature and has an influence on the result and quality of the data compression. The second source of non-uniformity has low frequency nature and has no influence of the compression result. As the contribution resulting from the sensor PRNU(Photo Response Non-Uniformity) is corrected inside the camera electronics, the effect of the remaining non-uniformity to the compression result will be negligible. The non-uniformity correction result shall have big difference according to the sensor modeling and the calculation method to get correction coefficient. Usually, the sensor can be modeled with one dimensional coefficients which are a gain and a offset for each pixel. Only two measurements are necessary theoretically to get coefficients. However, these are not the optimized value over the whole illumination level. This paper proposes the algorithm to calculate the optimized non-uniformity correction coefficients over whole illumination radiance. The proposed algorithm uses several measurements and the least square method to get the optimum coefficients. The proposed algorithm is verified using the own camera electronics including sensor, electrical test equipment and optical test equipment such as the integrating sphere.
Keywords
Non-uniformity conrrection coefficient; Image sensor; PRNU; Gain; Offset; Pixel;
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