Spectral sensitivity estimation of trichromatic camera based on orthogonal test and window filtering

JIEYU ZHU, XUFEN XIE, NINGFANG LIAO, ZHUANGZHI ZHANG, WENMIN WU, LVMING LV

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Abstract

The three-channel spectral sensitivity of a trichromatic camera represents the characteristics of system color space. It is a mapping bridge from the spectral information of a scene to the response value of a camera. In this paper, we propose an estimation method for three-channel spectral sensitivity of a trichromatic camera. It includes calibration experiment by orthogonal test design and the data processing by window filtering. The calibration experiment was first designed by an orthogonal table of the 9-level and 3-factor. A rough estimation model of spectral sensitivity is established on the data pairs of the system input and output in calibration experiments. The data of rough estimation is then modulated by two window filters on frequency and spatial domain. The Luther-Ives condition and the smoothness condition are introduced to design the window, and help to achieve the optimal estimation of the system spectral sensitivity. Finally, the proposed method is verified by some comparison experiments. The results show that the estimated spectral sensitivity is basically consistent with the measured results of the monochromator experiments, the relative full-scale errors of the RGB three-channel is obviously lower than the Wiener filtering method and the Fourier band-limitedness method. The proposed method can estimate the spectral sensitivity of the trichromatic digital camera very well, which is of great significance for the colorimetric characterization and evaluation of imaging systems.

Original languageEnglish
Article number401496
Pages (from-to)28085-28100
Number of pages16
JournalOptics Express
Volume28
Issue number19
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2020
Externally publishedYes

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