Suppression of fixed pattern noise for infrared image system

Changhan Park; Jungsoo Han; Kyung-Hoon Bae

doi:10.1117/12.777985

15 April 2008 Suppression of fixed pattern noise for infrared image system

Changhan Park, Jungsoo Han, Kyung-Hoon Bae

Proceedings Volume 6941, Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XIX; 694119 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.777985
Event: SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, 2008, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we propose suppression of fixed pattern noise (FPN) and compensation of soft defect for improvement of object tracking in cooled staring infrared focal plane array (IRFPA) imaging system. FPN appears an observable image which applies to non-uniformity compensation (NUC) by temperature. Soft defect appears glittering black and white point by characteristics of non-uniformity for IR detector by time. This problem is very important because it happen serious problem for object tracking as well as degradation for image quality. Signal processing architecture in cooled staring IRFPA imaging system consists of three tables: low, normal, high temperature for reference gain and offset values. Proposed method operates two offset tables for each table. This is method which operates six term of temperature on the whole. Proposed method of soft defect compensation consists of three stages: (1) separates sub-image for an image, (2) decides a motion distribution of object between each sub-image, (3) analyzes for statistical characteristic from each stationary fixed pixel. Based on experimental results, the proposed method shows an improved image which suppresses FPN by change of temperature distribution from an observational image in real-time.

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Changhan Park, Jungsoo Han, and Kyung-Hoon Bae "Suppression of fixed pattern noise for infrared image system", Proc. SPIE 6941, Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XIX, 694119 (15 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.777985

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