Optical transfer functions, weighting functions, and metrics for images with two-dimensional line-of-sight motion

Abstract

Abstract. We define the displacement, smear, and jitter components of image motion and derive the two-dimensional statistical image motion optical transfer function (OTF) corresponding to each component. These statistical OTFs are parameterized by means and covariances, which are computed most conveniently from a weighted power spectrum of the line-of-sight motion. Another feature of these results is the realization that all temporal and spatial frequencies contribute to each statistical OTF and that one can determine the frequencies that contribute most significantly to each OTF. Additionally, optical system design is typically based upon the properties of an individual image. In a comprehensive optical system design, the statistical properties of an ensemble of images should also be considered. For individual images subject to a constant but possibly unknown smear length, the OTF is a sinc function. This is called a deterministic smear OTF because it does not describe the smear statistically. The statistical smear OTF describes the average smear OTF for an ensemble of images. © The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI.

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