Optics Temperature-Dependent Nonuniformity Correction Via <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX"> $\ell _{0}$</tex-math></inline-formula>-Regularized Prior for Airborne Infrared Imaging Systems

In this paper, we propose a new <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ell _{0}$</tex-math></inline-formula> -regularized approach to remove the temperature-dependent nonuniformity effects induced by the infrared (IR) imaging optics in an aerothermal environme...

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Main Authors: Li Liu, Tianxu Zhang
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2016-01-01
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description In this paper, we propose a new <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ell _{0}$</tex-math></inline-formula> -regularized approach to remove the temperature-dependent nonuniformity effects induced by the infrared (IR) imaging optics in an aerothermal environment. The <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ell _{0}$</tex-math> </inline-formula> image prior is inspired by observing distinct characteristics of IR images with small targets. Based on this effective prior, we present a variational framework where we optimize an energy functional to estimate the optics-related fixed pattern noise (FPN) and the latent image. A computationally efficient numerical algorithm based on half-quadratic regularization is used to solve the optimization problem. The proposed method is fundamentally different from the existing nonuniformity correction techniques developed for infrared focal plane arrays and simultaneously suppresses the optics-related FPN and random noise. Both quantitative and qualitative comparisons to specialized state-of-art algorithms demonstrate its superiority.
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spelling doaj-art-9b847faa49be41419e752e699eab503d2025-08-20T03:31:21ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552016-01-018511010.1109/JPHOT.2016.26020597548360Optics Temperature-Dependent Nonuniformity Correction Via <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX"> $\ell _{0}$</tex-math></inline-formula>-Regularized Prior for Airborne Infrared Imaging SystemsLi Liu0Tianxu Zhang1School of Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, ChinaSchool of Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, ChinaIn this paper, we propose a new <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ell _{0}$</tex-math></inline-formula> -regularized approach to remove the temperature-dependent nonuniformity effects induced by the infrared (IR) imaging optics in an aerothermal environment. The <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ell _{0}$</tex-math> </inline-formula> image prior is inspired by observing distinct characteristics of IR images with small targets. Based on this effective prior, we present a variational framework where we optimize an energy functional to estimate the optics-related fixed pattern noise (FPN) and the latent image. A computationally efficient numerical algorithm based on half-quadratic regularization is used to solve the optimization problem. The proposed method is fundamentally different from the existing nonuniformity correction techniques developed for infrared focal plane arrays and simultaneously suppresses the optics-related FPN and random noise. Both quantitative and qualitative comparisons to specialized state-of-art algorithms demonstrate its superiority.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7548360/Infrared imagingnonuniformity correction.
spellingShingle Li Liu
Tianxu Zhang
Optics Temperature-Dependent Nonuniformity Correction Via <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX"> $\ell _{0}$</tex-math></inline-formula>-Regularized Prior for Airborne Infrared Imaging Systems
IEEE Photonics Journal
Infrared imaging
nonuniformity correction.
title Optics Temperature-Dependent Nonuniformity Correction Via <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX"> $\ell _{0}$</tex-math></inline-formula>-Regularized Prior for Airborne Infrared Imaging Systems
title_full Optics Temperature-Dependent Nonuniformity Correction Via <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX"> $\ell _{0}$</tex-math></inline-formula>-Regularized Prior for Airborne Infrared Imaging Systems
title_fullStr Optics Temperature-Dependent Nonuniformity Correction Via <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX"> $\ell _{0}$</tex-math></inline-formula>-Regularized Prior for Airborne Infrared Imaging Systems
title_full_unstemmed Optics Temperature-Dependent Nonuniformity Correction Via <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX"> $\ell _{0}$</tex-math></inline-formula>-Regularized Prior for Airborne Infrared Imaging Systems
title_short Optics Temperature-Dependent Nonuniformity Correction Via <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX"> $\ell _{0}$</tex-math></inline-formula>-Regularized Prior for Airborne Infrared Imaging Systems
title_sort optics temperature dependent nonuniformity correction via inline formula tex math notation latex ell 0 tex math inline formula regularized prior for airborne infrared imaging systems
topic Infrared imaging
nonuniformity correction.
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7548360/
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