Improving The Acquisition / Image Quality; Correcting Image Errors Of A Sensor - Balluff MATRIX VISION mvBlueNAOS Technical Manual

1.18 Use Cases

1.18.2 Improving the acquisition / image quality

There are several use cases concerning the acquisition / image quality of the camera:
• Correcting image errors of a sensor (p. 133)
• Optimizing the color/luminance fidelity of the camera (p. 138)
• Setting a flicker-free auto expose and auto gain (p. 153)
• Working with binning / decimation (p. 157)

1.18.2.1 Correcting image errors of a sensor

1.18.2.1.1 Introduction Due to random process deviations, technical limitations of the sensors, etc. there are
different reasons that image sensors have image errors. MATRIX VISION provides several procedures to correct
these errors, by default these are host-based calculations, however some camera families support camera-based
corrections, which saves dozens of % CPU load and lowers latency.
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Generally, removing defect pixels requires two sub-tasks:
• Detection of defective pixels
• Correction of defective pixels
Both tasks can performed in different "locations":
• Detection and correction on the host using mvIMPACT Acquire
• Detection on the host using mvIMPACT Acquire, correction on the camera using the camera's
DefectivePixelCorrectionControl
• Detection and correction on the camera using
algorithm-based mode.
If detection is not happening in real-time, meaning during the image acquisition itself, it is necessary to store the
detected defects somewhere. This can be either on the camera or the host or both.
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