Amplificateur optiqueEn optique, on appelle amplificateur optique un dispositif qui amplifie un signal lumineux sans avoir besoin de le convertir d'abord en signal électrique avant de l'amplifier avec les techniques classiques de l'électronique. Un amplificateur à fibre dopée fonctionne à la manière d'un laser. Une portion de fibre optique est dopée et est pompée optiquement avec un laser afin de placer les ions de dopage dans un état excité.
Capteur photographique CCDvignette|Capteur photographique CCD pour l'imagerie astronomique. Un capteur photographique CCD est un capteur photographique basé sur un dispositif à transfert de charges (charge coupled device, CCD). Dans les scanners de documents et beaucoup d'autres applications similaires, les dispositifs sont linéaires ; ils passent transversalement sur l'objet à explorer. Dans les appareils photographiques et les caméras vidéo numériques, les capteurs sont regroupés sur une surface rectangulaire, où chaque CCD forme une ligne, souvent dans la plus petite dimension de l'image.
Diplôme honorifiquevignette| Le doctorat honoris causa reçu par Jimmy Wales de l'Université de Maastricht (2015). Un diplôme honorifique est un diplôme universitaire pour lequel une université (ou un autre établissement décernant un diplôme) a renoncé à toutes les exigences habituelles, telles que l'inscription, la fréquentation, les crédits de cours, une thèse et la réussite d'examens de synthèse. Il est également connu sous les expressions latines honoris causa (« pour l'honneur ») ou ad honorem (« à l'honneur »).
Blob detectionIn computer vision, blob detection methods are aimed at detecting regions in a that differ in properties, such as brightness or color, compared to surrounding regions. Informally, a blob is a region of an image in which some properties are constant or approximately constant; all the points in a blob can be considered in some sense to be similar to each other. The most common method for blob detection is convolution.
Structure tensorIn mathematics, the structure tensor, also referred to as the second-moment matrix, is a matrix derived from the gradient of a function. It describes the distribution of the gradient in a specified neighborhood around a point and makes the information invariant respect the observing coordinates. The structure tensor is often used in and computer vision. For a function of two variables p = (x, y), the structure tensor is the 2×2 matrix where and are the partial derivatives of with respect to x and y; the integrals range over the plane ; and w is some fixed "window function" (such as a Gaussian blur), a distribution on two variables.
Corner detectionCorner detection is an approach used within computer vision systems to extract certain kinds of features and infer the contents of an image. Corner detection is frequently used in motion detection, , video tracking, image mosaicing, panorama stitching, 3D reconstruction and object recognition. Corner detection overlaps with the topic of interest point detection. A corner can be defined as the intersection of two edges. A corner can also be defined as a point for which there are two dominant and different edge directions in a local neighbourhood of the point.
Détection de contoursEn et en vision par ordinateur, on appelle détection de contours les procédés permettant de repérer les points d'une qui correspondent à un changement brutal de l'intensité lumineuse. Ces changements de propriétés de l' indiquent en général des éléments importants de structure dans l'objet représenté. Ces éléments incluent des discontinuités dans la profondeur, dans l'orientation d'une surface, dans les propriétés d'un matériau et dans l'éclairage d'une scène.
Active-pixel sensorAn active-pixel sensor (APS) is an , which was invented by Peter J.W. Noble in 1968, where each pixel sensor unit cell has a photodetector (typically a pinned photodiode) and one or more active transistors. In a metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) active-pixel sensor, MOS field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) are used as amplifiers. There are different types of APS, including the early NMOS APS and the now much more common complementary MOS (CMOS) APS, also known as the CMOS sensor.
PET-CTPositron emission tomography–computed tomography (better known as PET-CT or PET/CT) is a nuclear medicine technique which combines, in a single gantry, a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner and an x-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner, to acquire sequential images from both devices in the same session, which are combined into a single superposed () image. Thus, functional imaging obtained by PET, which depicts the spatial distribution of metabolic or biochemical activity in the body can be more precisely aligned or correlated with anatomic imaging obtained by CT scanning.
Back-illuminated sensorA back-illuminated sensor, also known as backside illumination (BI) sensor, is a type of digital that uses a novel arrangement of the imaging elements to increase the amount of light captured and thereby improve low-light performance. The technique was used for some time in specialized roles like low-light security cameras and astronomy sensors, but was complex to build and required further refinement to become widely used. Sony was the first to reduce these problems and their costs sufficiently to introduce a 5-megapixel 1.
