Hyperspectral imaging using flickerless active LED illumination

概要

© 2017 SPIE. Hyperspectral imaging is used in various fields because it can obtain much more information than imaging by conventional RGB cameras. Hyperspectral imaging systems using active illumination, prisms, gratings, or narrowband filters have been proposed. Active illumination systems can obtain two-dimensional (2D) spectral images rapidly, and the device can be low-cost and small because of the use of LEDs. However, flicker can occur when different colors of LEDs are switched. The other methods do not have the flicker problem because they use passive imaging. However, these systems take a long time to acquire the 2D spectral images, or they tend to be high-cost or large. In our research, we propose a flickerless active LED illumination system for hyperspectral imaging. This system acquires images while switching the illumination. The switching illumination consists of many narrowband LEDs that have different spectrums. The spectral images of each LED are reconstructed from the acquired images. The switching illumination is designed to reduce the flicker based on human visual characteristics. We reduce the color changes of the switching illumination while maintaining its spectral differences. In the experiment, we obtain the optimal design of a flickerless illumination system for measuring oxygen saturation. To show the feasibility of our system, we clearly show the difference in saturation using the spectral images obtained by a prototype designed using the proposed method.

収録
Thirteenth International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision 2017
長原一
長原一
教授

コンピューテーショナルフォトグラフィ、コンピュータビジョンを専門とし実世界センシングや情報処理技術、画像認識技術の研究を行う。さらに、画像センシングにとどまらず様々なセンサに拡張したコンピュテーショナルセンシング手法の開発や高次元で冗長な実世界ビッグデータから意味のある情報を計測するスパースセンシングへの転換を目指す。