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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/COPP.2022.6.6.608

A Double-channel Four-band True Color Night Vision System  

Jiang, Yunfeng (Department of Electronics and Optical Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA)
Wu, Dongsheng (Department of Electronics and Optical Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA)
Liu, Jie (Department of Electronics and Optical Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA)
Tian, Kuo (Department of Electronics and Optical Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA)
Wang, Dan (Department of Electronics and Optical Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA)
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Current Optics and Photonics / v.6, no.6, 2022 , pp. 608-618 More about this Journal
Abstract
By analyzing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) theory of the conventional true color night vision system, we found that the output image SNR is limited by the wavelength range of the system response λ1 and λ2. Therefore, we built a double-channel four-band true color night vision system to expand the system response to improve the output image SNR. In the meantime, we proposed an image fusion method based on principal component analysis (PCA) and nonsubsampled shearlet transform (NSST) to obtain the true color night vision images. Through experiments, a method based on edge extraction of the targets and spatial dimension decorrelation was proposed to calculate the SNR of the obtained images and we calculated the correlation coefficient (CC) between the edge graphs of obtained and reference images. The results showed that the SNR of the images of four scenes obtained by our system were 125.0%, 145.8%, 86.0% and 51.8% higher, respectively, than that of the conventional tri-band system and CC was also higher, which demonstrated that our system can get true color images with better quality.
Keywords
Decorrelation; Nonsubsampled shearlet transform (NSST); Principal component analysis (PCA); Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR); True color night vision;
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