Photon Limitations in Imaging and Image Restoration

Abstract

This report describes progress made in image quality factors, limiting performance of speckle and amplitude interferometry, and formulation of a least-squares filtering problem for space-variant degradations. This work is in photon-limited imaging systems, their limitations, and the restorability of their imagery.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA045545

Entities

People

  • J. F. Belsher
  • J. W. Goodman

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detectors
  • Diffraction
  • Far Field
  • Flux Density
  • Frequency
  • Intensity
  • Interferometers
  • Interferometry
  • Measurement
  • Near Field
  • Quantum Efficiency
  • Radiant Intensity
  • Spearography
  • Transfer Functions
  • Voltage

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects