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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/JOSK.2011.15.4.357

Distance Extraction by Means of Photon-Counting Passive Sensing Combined with Integral Imaging  

Yeom, Seok-Won (Division of Computer and Communication Engineering, Daegu University)
Woo, Yong-Hyen (Division of Computer and Communication Engineering, Daegu University)
Baek, Won-Woo (Division of Computer and Communication Engineering, Daegu University)
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Journal of the Optical Society of Korea / v.15, no.4, 2011 , pp. 357-361 More about this Journal
Abstract
Photon-counting sensing is a widely used technique for low-light-level imaging applications. This paper proposes a distance information extraction method with photon-counting passive sensing under low-lightlevel conditions. The photo-counting passive sensing combined with integral imaging generates a photon-limited elemental image array. Maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) is used to reconstruct the photon-limited image at certain depth levels. The distance information is extracted at the depth level that minimizes the sum of the standard deviation of the corresponding photo-events in the elemental image array. Experimental and simulation results confirm that the proposed method can extract the distance information of the object under low-light-level conditions.
Keywords
Distance extraction; Integral imaging; Image reconstruction; Photon-counting; Passive sensing;
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