INF5442 – Image Sensor Circuits and Systems
Course description
Course content
This course looks at digital camera technologies, entire signal chain from light in to compressed images out, CCDs and CMOS image sensors, image noise and mitigation techniques and how to measure signal/noise ratio and camera performance parameters. It also looks at special sensors for low-light capture, high dynamic range image capture, slow motion capture, 3D stereo capture, 3D time-of-flight capture, image signal processing basics (black level compensation, auto-exposure control, auto white-balance), JPEG compression and camera interfaces.
Learning outcome
Successful completion of the course will give the student competency in the following areas:
- Basic knowledge of analog and digital circuits used in cameras
- Pixels and readout circuits
- Basic knowledge of image processing algorithms used in cameras
- 2D and 3D capture techniques
Admission
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Prerequisites
Recommended previous knowledge
Some basic image processing knowledge, e.g. INF2310 - Digital bildebehandling, and INF4300 - Digital bildeanalyse, is recommended but not mandatory. Microelectronics knowledge is also recommended, INF3410 - Analog microelectronics.
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with INF9442 – Image Sensor Circuits and Systems (continued)
- 5 credits overlap with INF5440 – CMOS Image sensors (discontinued)
- 5 credits overlap with INF-CBS
- 7 credits overlap with INF5441 – CMOS billedsensor (continued)