scholarly journals Noise Performance of Time-Domain CMOS Image Sensors

Author(s):  
Fernando de S. Campos ◽  
Jose Alfredo C. Ulson ◽  
Jose Eduardo C. Castanho ◽  
Paulo R.
Author(s):  
Fernando de S. Campos ◽  
José Alfredo C. Ulson ◽  
José Eduardo C. Castanho ◽  
Bruno Albuquerque de Castro ◽  
Rudolf Riehl

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1284
Author(s):  
Jorge Igual

Photography is being benefited from the huge improvement in CMOS image sensors. New cameras extend the dynamic range allowing photographers to take photos with a higher quality than they could imagine one decade ago. However, the existence of different technologies make more complicated the photographic analysis of how to determine the optimal camera exposure settings. In this paper, we analyze how the different noise models are translated to different signal to noise S N R curve patterns and which factors are relevant. In particular, we discuss profoundly the relationships between exposure settings (shutter speed, aperture and ISO). Since a fair comparison between cameras can be tricky because of different pixel size, sensor format or ISO scale definition, we explain how the pixel analysis of a camera can be translated to a more helpful universal photographic noise measure based on human perception and common photography rules. We analyze the RAW files of different camera models and show how the noise performance analysis ( S N R and dynamic range) interact with photographer’s requirements.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (24) ◽  
pp. 5459
Author(s):  
Wei Deng ◽  
Eric R. Fossum

This work fits the measured in-pixel source-follower noise in a CMOS Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) prototype chip using physics-based 1/f noise models, rather than the widely-used fitting model for analog designers. This paper discusses the different origins of 1/f noise in QIS devices and includes correlated double sampling (CDS). The modelling results based on the Hooge mobility fluctuation, which uses one adjustable parameter, match the experimental measurements, including the variation in noise from room temperature to –70 °C. This work provides useful information for the implementation of QIS in scientific applications and suggests that even lower read noise is attainable by further cooling and may be applicable to other CMOS analog circuits and CMOS image sensors.


Author(s):  
Jing Fu ◽  
Jie Feng ◽  
Yu-Dong Li ◽  
Qi Guo ◽  
Ying Wei ◽  
...  

IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 172467-172480
Author(s):  
Qihui Zhang ◽  
Ning Ning ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
Qi Yu ◽  
Kejun Wu ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (12) ◽  
pp. 4173-4179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantin D. Stefanov ◽  
Zhige Zhang ◽  
Chris Damerell ◽  
David Burt ◽  
Arjun Kar-Roy

Sensors ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo-Neng Lu ◽  
Arnaud Tournier ◽  
François Roy ◽  
Benoît Deschamps

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