Abstract

A method for the system analysis of a multistage photographic or communication system is developed. By following the input signal through the system and estimating the output signal and the output signal without noise, the information capacity after each stage can be estimated. The relationship between the variance and the integral of the power spectrum is used in accounting for the effects of each of the component characteristics: modulation transfer function, density-log exposure relationship and granularity. This method is implemented in a computer program which allows one to vary the characteristics of the components and determine the resultant changes in information capacity. Several variations of a specific photographic system, the color negative system, are examined and discussed. The loss in information capacity is examined at the output of the camera/film stage, printer/paper stage and the human visual system stage. One clear result is that human visual system significantly reduces the information capacity of the entire system. The technique has general application to any communication system which can meet the requirements of the assumptions.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Imaging systems--Analysis; Telecommunication systems--Analysis; System analysis--Computer programs

Publication Date

4-1-1988

Document Type

Thesis

Department, Program, or Center

Electrical Engineering (KGCOE)

Advisor

DeLorenzo, Joseph

Comments

Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works. Physical copy available through RIT's The Wallace Library at: TK8315.O875 1988

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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