The target object – an Air Force resolution chart |
Registration – The orientation of the camera determines how the image is formed. Typically, an affine transformation will describe the relative observations. |
Optical blurring and pixel layout degrade the image. In addition, sensor noise, quantization, and dynamic range can further reduce the fidelity of the scene. |
Sensor sampling reduces the available resolution. |
The results indicate that N2 low resolution image sensors can produce about the same performance as a single high resolution sensor with N times the resolution along each dimension. This indicates that a sufficiently large collection of sensors can produce images that exceed the resolution of state-of-the-art and yet to be developed systems. Potential applications could include inexpensive high resolution cameras, wide-angle surveillance with embedded high resolution regions (foveation), cameras with a planar profile, and so on.