Author Affiliations
1Key Laboratory of Infrared System Detection and Imaging Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China2Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Simple schematic diagram of adaptive gain imaging system
Fig. 2. Encoding process diagram of channel programming table for adaptive gain imaging mode
Fig. 3. Coding process diagram of calibration mode channel programming table
Fig. 4. Flow Chart for calculating the onboard gain radio coefficient
Fig. 5. Image of four gains and adaptive gains in exterior imaging
Fig. 6. Strip noise removal effect diagram
Fig. 7. K-Means algorithm flowchart
Fig. 8. Gains with the highest and second most occurrences and adaptive gain distribution of channel 13
Fig. 9. Schematic diagram of elbow method to search for K value in K-Means classification
Fig. 10. Schematic diagram of K-Means classification results
Fig. 11. Raw data points obtained by classifying and averaging two gain levels in several spectral channels
Fig. 12. Measurement results of the ratio coefficient between MG and LG for channels 1, 2, 3, 14, and 15
Fig. 13. Measurement results of the ratio coefficient between LG and ULG for channels 2, 3, 4, and 5
Fig. 14. Comparison of low gain inversion and high gain output for channel 2 external imaging
Channels | Gain with the most occurrences | Gain with the second most occurrences | Channels | Gain with the most occurrences | Gain with the second most occurrences | Ch1 | MG | HG | Ch9 | ULG | LG | Ch2 | LG | MG | Ch10 | LG | MG | Ch3 | LG | MG | Ch11 | LG | MG | Ch4 | LG | MG | Ch12 | LG | MG | Ch5 | LG | MG | Ch13 | ULG | LG | Ch6 | LG | MG | Ch14 | LG | MG | Ch7 | LG | ULG | Ch15 | LG | MG | Ch8 | ULG | LG | | | | |
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Table 1. Two gains with highest number of occurrences in each spectral channel
Channels | Field experiment proportion coefficients | Lab experiment proportion coefficients | Measurement error of field experiment coefficients | Ch1 | 4.214 | 4.559 | 7.57% | Ch2 | 4.253 | 4.549 | 5.143% | Ch3 | 4.241 | 4.423 | 3.843% | Ch14 | 4.451 | 4.681 | 4.913% | Ch15 | 4.524 | 4.451 | 1.640% |
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Table 2. MG/LG adjacent gain ratio coefficient of exterior imaging
Channels | Field experiment proportion coefficients | Lab experiment proportion coefficients | Measurement error of field experiment coefficients | Ch2 | 3.264 | 3.251 | 0.399% | Ch3 | 3.258 | 3.273 | 0.458% | Ch4 | 3.268 | 3.264 | 0.123% | Ch5 | 3.179 | 3.260 | 2.485% | Ch12 | 3.196 | 3.263 | 2.053% | Ch13 | 3.248 | 3.278 | 0.915% | Ch14 | 3.252 | 3.258 | 0.184% | Ch15 | 3.270 | 3.259 | 0.338% |
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Table 3. LG/ULG adjacent gain ratio coefficient of exterior imaging
Channels and corresponding gains | NMSE | SSIM | R | Ch2 MG/LG | 0.0342 | 0.912 | 0.983 | Ch3 MG/LG | 0.0901 | 0.893 | 0.955 | Ch4 LG/ULG | 0.0765 | 0.878 | 0.962 | Ch4 MG/LG | 0.0399 | 0.989 | 0.980 | Ch5 LG/ULG | 0.0695 | 0.879 | 0.965 | Ch5 MG/LG | 0.0520 | 0.917 | 0.974 | Ch6 LG/ULG | 0.0287 | 0.874 | 0.986 | Ch6 MG/LG | 0.0713 | 0.895 | 0.964 | Ch7 LG/ULG | 0.0853 | 0.949 | 0.957 | Ch8 LG/ULG | 0.0833 | 0.965 | 0.958 |
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Table 4. Inversion of image quality in outfield imaging