Monday, May 07, 2012

Human Eyes as an Image Sensor

This is a pretty old 2001 Yoshio Fukui notes, but it's still a best summary of human eye properties expressed in image sensor terms I've seen. Few quotes:

Spectral sensitivity:
Light-adapted eyes: 400 – 700 nm (peak at 555 nm: yellow light)
Dark-adapted eyes: 380 – 650 nm (peak at 507 nm: green light)

QE:
At low luminance = 5%
At high luminance = 0.5%

A slightly expanded version of Yoshio Fukui lecture is here.

2 comments:

  1. It's funny when you put a near 100% QE sensor in front of your eyes, can you see better at night?

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  2. what is the QE of this bebe:
    http://www.google.fr/imgres?q=hiboux&hl=fr&sa=X&biw=1280&bih=909&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=rP1lISssXRm-6M:&imgrefurl=http://enpentedouce.forum-actif.net/t2935-les-chouettes-et-hiboux&docid=PSlOuRwy6pWENM&imgurl=http://i84.servimg.com/u/f84/12/54/72/78/hiboux10.jpg&w=550&h=365&ei=wA6sT4vbHuTH0QXAvpifAQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=963&vpy=195&dur=1431&hovh=183&hovw=276&tx=193&ty=117&sig=103820482716153516431&page=1&tbnh=142&tbnw=188&start=0&ndsp=26&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0,i:147

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