Low-Contrast Video Image Sensor — Performance and Considerations

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: J SMPTE
Volume: 89, No. 10, pp. 717–720
Abstract: Tests conducted with four prevalent types of image sensors show that the vidicon is the best choice for low-contrast applications. A specially constructed simulator confirmed, in the case of a vidicon camera, that preamplifier noise determines detection threshold for a small signal amplitude (low-contrast target) against a large amplitude background signal (such as the sky). In addition, the triangular noise spectrum associated with a vidicon preamplifier has been found to have a higher detection threshold than has an equal signal-to-noise ratio white noise case.
Publication Date: 1980-10-01
DOI: 10.5594/J01560
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J01560
Author(s): Wayne W. FrameBall Aerospace Systems Division, Ball Corp., P.O. Box 1062, Boulder, CO 80306.
Copyright: © 1980 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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