How to Measure a Camera''s Response Curve from Scratch
Martin Bichsel, Krystyna W. Ohnesorge · 1993
This paper describes how the response curve of a video camera can be determined with the aid of a sheet of paper and two desk lamps only. The calibration process is based on the superposition law of incoherent light and does not make use of any calibrated measurement instrument. 1 Introduction Digitizing and processing of video images has steadily gained importance in recent years. Various applications profit from this technique, in particular industrial inspection, optical measuring, desktop publishing, and remote sensing. For applications which are sensitive to image quality an exact characterization of the properties of the data acquisition equipment is essential. Knowing the equipment's response curve is especially important because many applications either rely on a linear response curve or on a specific power law (fl-correction). Relying on the data sheets of the measurement equipment is only partially useful because 1. The data is often missing (e.g. for the digitizer). 2. The ...