Application of information theory to the design of line-scan and sensor-array imaging systems

Abstract Information theory is used to assess the performance of line-scan and sensor-array imaging systems as a function of their spatial response, sensitivity, and sampling and quantization intervals. Computational results for the statistical properties of random radiance fields provide general guidelines for optimizing the information efficiency of image data acquisition, processing and reconstruction systems.

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