Abstract
The slanted-edge method for modulation transfer function (MTF) measurement uses edge target images whose gray values are often affected by noise and other factors, decreasing its accuracy. We first analyze the ill-posedness in the edge spread function (ESF) regression caused by noise. Second, we propose a regularized slanted-edge method to solve this problem by incorporating a Tikhonov regularization term. Combined with varying precision weights, the ESF is solved using the variational principle, and the MTF is estimated using the regularized ESF. The regularized slanted-edge method is verified for Gaussian, gamma, and Rayleigh noise. The results show that our method improves the accuracy by 0.01–9.02% and 4.33% on average. The proposed method is more robust to noise and accurate than the slanted-edge method.
© 2018 Optical Society of America
Full Article | PDF ArticleMore Like This
Xufen Xie, Hongda Fan, Hongyuan Wang, Zebin Wang, and Nianyu Zou
Appl. Opt. 57(7) B83-B91 (2018)
Sedigheh Najafi and Khosro Madanipour
Appl. Opt. 52(19) 4724-4727 (2013)
Kenichiro Masaoka, Takayuki Yamashita, Yukihiro Nishida, and Masayuki Sugawara
Opt. Express 22(5) 6040-6046 (2014)