From photon to pixel the digital camera handbook

The digital camera conceals remarkable technological innovations that affect the formation of the image, the color representation or automated measurements and settings. ** From photon to pixel photon ** describes the device both from the point of view of the physics of the phenomena involved, as te...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Maître, H. author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley 2015.
Edición:1st edition
Colección:Digital signal and image processing series.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629583306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1: First Contact
  • 1.1. Toward a society of the image
  • 1.2. The reason for this book
  • 1.3. Physical principle of image formation
  • 1.4. Camera block diagram
  • 2: The Photographic Objective Lens
  • 2.1. Focusing
  • 2.2. Depth of field
  • 2.3. Angle of view
  • 2.4. Centered systems
  • 2.5. Fisheye systems
  • 2.6. Incoherent diffraction
  • 2.7. Camera calibration
  • 2.8. Aberrations
  • 3: The Digital Sensor
  • 3.1. Sensor size
  • 3.2. The photodetector
  • 3.3. Integrated filters in the sensor
  • 4: Radiometry and Photometry
  • 4.1. Radiometry: physical parameters
  • 4.2. Subjective aspects: photometry
  • 4.3. Real systems
  • 4.4. Radiometry and photometry in practice
  • 4.5. From the watt to the ISO
  • 5: Color
  • 5.1. From electromagnetic radiation to perception
  • 5.2. Color spaces
  • 5.3. The white balance
  • 5.4. Acquiring color
  • 5.5. Reconstructing color: demosaicing
  • 6: Image Quality
  • 6.1. Qualitative attributes
  • 6.2. Global image quality assessment
  • 6.3. Information capacity
  • 7: Noise in Digital Photography
  • 7.1. Photon noise
  • 7.2. Electronic noise
  • 7.3. Non-uniform noise
  • 7.4. Noise models for image acquisition
  • 8: Image Representation: Coding and Formats
  • 8.1. "Native" format and metadata
  • 8.2. RAW (native) format
  • 8.3. Metadata
  • 8.4. Lossless compression formats
  • 8.5. Image formats for graphic design
  • 8.6. Lossy compression formats
  • 8.7. Tiled formats
  • 8.8. Video coding
  • 8.9. Compressed sensing
  • 9: Elements of Camera Hardware
  • 9.1. Image processors
  • 9.2. Memory
  • 9.3. Screens
  • 9.4. The shutter
  • 9.5. Measuring focus
  • 9.6. Stabilization
  • 9.7. Additions to the lens assembly: supplementary lenses and filters
  • 9.8. Power cells
  • 10: Photographic Software
  • 10.1. Integrated software
  • 10.2. Imported software.
  • 10.3. External software
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • End User License Agreement.