The Effects of Sensor Spectral Sensitivity, Pixel Pitch, Photon Shot Noise, and Dark Noise on Perceived Image Quality

Hideyasu KUNIBA; Roy S. BERNS

doi:10.1587/transfun.E92.A.3321

The Effects of Sensor Spectral Sensitivity, Pixel Pitch, Photon Shot Noise, and Dark Noise on Perceived Image Quality

Hideyasu KUNIBA, Roy S. BERNS

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Image sensor noise was estimated in an approximately perceptually uniform space with a color image sensor model. Particularly, the noise level with respect to an image sensor's pixel pitch and the dark noise was investigated. It was shown that the noise level could be about half when spectral sensitivity was optimized considering noise with reduced color reproduction accuracy. It was also shown that for a 2.0 µm pixel pitch sensor, the exposure index should be less than 100-150 in order to keep the noise level ₉₄ less than 5 even if it had no dark noise, whereas the exposure index could reach about 2000-4000 for a 8.0 µm pixel pitch sensor depending on the sensor sensitivity and the dark noise level.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E92-A No.12 pp.3321-3327

Publication Date: 2009/12/01

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Online ISSN: 1745-1337

DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E92.A.3321

Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Image Media Quality)

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Hideyasu KUNIBA, Roy S. BERNS, "The Effects of Sensor Spectral Sensitivity, Pixel Pitch, Photon Shot Noise, and Dark Noise on Perceived Image Quality" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals, vol. E92-A, no. 12, pp. 3321-3327, December 2009, doi: 10.1587/transfun.E92.A.3321.
Abstract: Image sensor noise was estimated in an approximately perceptually uniform space with a color image sensor model. Particularly, the noise level with respect to an image sensor's pixel pitch and the dark noise was investigated. It was shown that the noise level could be about half when spectral sensitivity was optimized considering noise with reduced color reproduction accuracy. It was also shown that for a 2.0 µm pixel pitch sensor, the exposure index should be less than 100-150 in order to keep the noise level ₉₄ less than 5 even if it had no dark noise, whereas the exposure index could reach about 2000-4000 for a 8.0 µm pixel pitch sensor depending on the sensor sensitivity and the dark noise level.
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