Types Of Noise In The Visual System

Leo Levi

doi:10.1117/12.7972671

1 February 1981 Types Of Noise In The Visual System

Leo Levi

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 20, Issue 1, 200198 (February 1981). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7972671

Abstract

With the human observer serving as the final detector in many imaging systems, the functioning of the visual system becomes an important design determinant. Here the contrast threshold is investigated in terms of underlying noise sources. Rose has shown that the threshold found at intermediate brightness levels can be accounted for on the basis of the quantum noise of the radiation absorbed by the retinal detectors. Here it is shown how reasonable and simple assumptions concerning other sources of noise would affect the threshold contrast over the full range of observable brightness levels. The resulting model may prove useful in predicting performance of observer-device systems. Results obtained with the proposed model are compared with ex-perimentally observed threshold data.

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Leo Levi "Types Of Noise In The Visual System," Optical Engineering 20(1), 200198 (1 February 1981). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7972671

Published: 1 February 1981

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