Wide Dynamic Range Image Processing Technology

A wide dynamic range CMOS imager with extended shunting inhibition image processing capabilities

A CMOS imager based on a novel mixed-mode VLSI implementation of biologically inspired shunting inhibition vision models is presented. It can achieve a wide range of image processing tasks such as image enhancement or edge detection via a programmable shunting inhibition processor. Its most important feature is a gain control mechanism allowing local and global adaptation to the mean input ligh...

Logarithmic Image Sensor for Wide Dynamic Range Stereo Vision System

Stereo vision is the most universal way to get 3D information passively. The fast progress of digital image processing hardware makes this computation approach realizable now. It is well known that stereo vision matches 2 or more images of a scene, taken by image sensors from different points of view. Any information loss, even partially in those images, will drastically reduce the precision an...

Wide Dynamic Range

Wide-dynamic-range sensors

Orly Yadid-Pecht, MEMBER SPIE Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 653 Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. The work done to provide image sensors (CCDs and CMOS) with a wide dynamic range is reviewed. The different classes of solutions, which consist of logarithmic sensors, ‘‘clipped’’ sensors, multimode sensors, frequ...

Wide dynamic range imaging

Interest in technologies that can help improve image sensors—in terms of cost, noise and dynamic range—is growing as quickly as the market for them. Dynamic range (DR) quantifies the ability of a sensor to image highlights and shadows. If we define the dynamic range of the sensor as 20 log(S/N), where S is the maximal signal value and N is the sensor noise, the typical image sensors will have a...