Estimation of target-to-background luminance ratios is a powerful method by which human detection of objects can be assessed. In the forensic community, evaluation of the detectability of a pedestrian to an automobile driver is often of interest. With calibration, the modern digital camera employing a CCD or CMOS light collection device can be a convenient and economical luminance estimation tool. Certain CCD or CMOS sensors will linearly report the impinging incident light pixel by pixel over a range of intensities. The device becomes nonlinear at low and high intensities; however, the linear region can be adjusted to the specific lighting conditions of interest by modifying the shutter speed, ISO setting, and aperture size. Image noise, sensor non-uniformity, temperature sensitivity, camera color sensitivity, and the spectral power distribution of the illuminant require treatment for direct comparison to the luminance. The techniques, procedure, and post-processing outlined demonstrates the use of a calibrated digital camera for the quantitative estimation of luminance.


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    Title :

    Digital Camera Calibration for Luminance Estimation in Nighttime Visibility Studies


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE World Congress & Exhibition ; 2007



    Publication date :

    2007-04-16




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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