Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) thermal transducer is a promising technological platform for uncooled IR imaging. We fabricated MEMS infrared focal plane arrays (FPA) based on bi-material micro-cantilever and built an optical-readout infrared imaging system. However as a result of some factors there are a great many of noise in the infrared images. This paper presents a meaningful real-time denoising method base on double buffering. The advantages of this method are not only solving the problem of fluency for real-time infrared image processing, but also improving the noise problem impacting on the quality of infrared imaging. We have applied it to optical-readout infrared imaging system successfully. We present this method and our results in the paper.

Date Published: 20 November 2009
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 7510, 2009 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: MEMS/NEMS Technology and Applications, 75100C (20 November 2009); doi: 10.1117/12.837646

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7510:
2009 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: MEMS/NEMS Technology and Applications
Zhaoying Zhou; Toshio Fukuda; Helmut Seidel; Xinxin Li; Haixia Zhang; Tianhong Cui, Editor(s)