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Digital Circuit Methods to Correct and Filter Noise of Nonlinear CMOS Image Sensors
  DOI :  10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2018.62.6.060404  Published OnlineNovember 2018
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Abstract

Nonlinear complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors (CISs), such as logarithmic (log) and linear–logarithmic (linlog) sensors, achieve high/wide dynamic ranges in single exposures at video frame rates. As with linear CISs, fixed pattern noise (FPN) correction and salt-and-pepper noise (SPN) filtering are required to achieve high image quality. This paper presents a method to generate digital integrated circuits, suitable for any monotonic nonlinear CIS, to correct FPN in hard real time. It also presents a method to generate digital integrated circuits, suitable for any monochromatic nonlinear CIS, to filter SPN in hard real time. The methods are validated by implementing and testing generated circuits using field-programmable gate array (FPGA) tools from both Xilinx and Altera. Generated circuits are shown to be efficient, in terms of logic elements, memory bits, and power consumption. Scalability of the methods to full high-definition (FHD) video processing is also demonstrated. In particular, FPN correction and SPN filtering of over 140 megapixels per second are feasible, in hard real time, irrespective of the degree of nonlinearity.

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Maikon Nascimento, Jing Li, Dileepan Joseph, "Digital Circuit Methods to Correct and Filter Noise of Nonlinear CMOS Image Sensorsin Journal of Imaging Science and Technology,  2018,  pp 060404-1 - 060404-14,  https://doi.org/10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2018.62.6.060404

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  • received June 2018
  • accepted November 2018
  • PublishedNovember 2018

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