Image detection under low-level illumination.

Sequeira, R E; Gubner, J A; Saleh, B A · IEEE Trans Image Process · 1993

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Image detection under low-light-level conditions is treated as a hypothesis-testing problem in which the observations are modeled as a shot-noise process. Since computing the likelihood ratio for shot-noise processes is not feasible, the use of a one-dimensional test statistic obtained by filtering and sampling the observations is proposed. The filter is chosen to maximize a generalized signal-to-noise ratio. The likelihood ratio for the one-dimensional test statistic is evaluated numerically by inverting the corresponding characteristic function under each hypothesis.