Improved calibration-based non-uniformity correction method for uncooled infrared camera

Chengwei Liu; Xiubao Sui

doi:10.1117/12.2271410

30 August 2017 Improved calibration-based non-uniformity correction method for uncooled infrared camera

Chengwei Liu, Xiubao Sui

Proceedings Volume 10404, Infrared Sensors, Devices, and Applications VII; 104040X (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2271410
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

With the latest improvements of microbolometer focal plane arrays (FPA), uncooled infrared (IR) cameras are becoming the most widely used devices in thermography, especially in handheld devices. However the influences derived from changing ambient condition and the non-uniform response of the sensors make it more difficult to correct the nonuniformity of uncooled infrared camera. In this paper, based on the infrared radiation characteristic in the TEC-less uncooled infrared camera, a novel model was proposed for calibration-based non-uniformity correction (NUC). In this model, we introduce the FPA temperature, together with the responses of microbolometer under different ambient temperature to calculate the correction parameters. Based on the proposed model, we can work out the correction parameters with the calibration measurements under controlled ambient condition and uniform blackbody. All correction parameters can be determined after the calibration process and then be used to correct the non-uniformity of the infrared camera in real time. This paper presents the detail of the compensation procedure and the performance of the proposed calibration-based non-uniformity correction method. And our method was evaluated on realistic IR images obtained by a 384x288 pixels uncooled long wave infrared (LWIR) camera operated under changed ambient condition. The results show that our method can exclude the influence caused by the changed ambient condition, and ensure that the infrared camera has a stable performance.

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Chengwei Liu and Xiubao Sui "Improved calibration-based non-uniformity correction method for uncooled infrared camera", Proc. SPIE 10404, Infrared Sensors, Devices, and Applications VII, 104040X (30 August 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2271410

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