Digital imaging system design and trade space analysis

Improving imaging system design

“…Instead of designing the individual components separately and then assembling them into a single system, our software enables the direct optimization of all the system components together. 1,2 Our optimization and simulation software incorporates the target, lens, sensor, signal processing, display, and observer models, as well as their associated design degrees of freedom. By applying our optimized system model approach, we are able to produce an end-to-end design of an imaging system that uses the most relevant metrics (e.g., detection range, size, weight, power, and cost), as shown in Figure 1.…”