Adasky, Ltd.

Navix International Limited

Oleg Kuybeda

Eyal Madar

Assaf Weissman

Igor Ivanov

Vitaly Kuperman

Shlomo Ben-Haim

Sharon Ulman

Andrew Adler

Yair Alpern

Avi Katz

Yonatan Dishon

Yehuda Landau

Neta Sherer

A system and method for correcting oversaturated pixels in far-infrared (FIR) images captured by a shutterless FIR camera, the method comprising: capturing thermal images by a FIR sensor in the shutterless FIR camera; processing the thermal images, by the shutterless FIR camera to determine pixel value and at least a shutterless sunburn correction, wherein the shutterless sunburn correction removes oversaturated pixels based on pixel-by-pixel analysis of the thermal image; and sending the processed thermal images to an output device.

Techniques for correcting oversaturated pixels in shutterless FIR cameras

A radiometric camera having internal black body components and a method for calibrating a radiometric camera having internal black body components. A radiometric camera includes a detector, the detector further including a thermal detector configured to capture thermal images, wherein the thermal detector is pointed in a direction, wherein the radiometric camera is adapted to receive at least one black body element in front of the detector with respect to the direction of the thermal detector, the thermal detector having a plurality of portions including at least one first portion, wherein the at least one black body element affects radiation readings by the at least one first portion of a plurality of portions of the thermal detector when disposed in the radiometric camera.

Radiometric camera with black body elements for screening infectious disease carriers and method for calibrating a thermal camera having internal black body elements

A system and method for operating a Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) system. The method includes receiving images from an infrared (IR) camera, determining whether a non-uniform noise exists within the received images, performing a calibration, upon determining that the non-uniform noise exists, performing a Non-Uniformity Correction (NUC) on the IR, upon determining that there is residual non-uniform noise, after performing the calibration, and determining that the IR camera has not detected a moving object that is approaching the IR camera, determining whether a Field of View (FOV) of the IR camera is occluded, after performing the NUC, and cleaning the IR camera, upon determining that the FOV of the infrared camera is occluded.

Vehicle to infrastructure system and method with long wave infrared capability

Methods and systems of computing parameter values of one or more model parameters are described. The model models structural and dielectric properties of a structure in a human or an animal body. An exemplary method includes: accessing voltage measurements made at different places in the vicinity of the structure by one or more in-body field sensing electrodes in response to currents applied to one or more field supplying electrodes; and computing the parameter values by adjusting the parameter values to fit predicted voltage values to the accessed voltage measurements, wherein the predicted voltage values are predicted from the model for the currents applied to the field supplying in-body electrodes.

Modelling a structure in a body

A radiometric camera and method for obtaining accurate radiometric readings of objects in a scene captured by a radiometric camera. The method comprises estimating a gamma drift coefficient based on an input thermal image, wherein the thermal image is captured by an infrared sensor; performing, based on the gamma drift coefficient and the input thermal image, a sensor temperature stabilization to provide an ambient-stabilized thermal image, wherein the ambient-stabilized thermal image is invariant to temperature changes of the infrared sensor; performing ambient calibration to estimate a scene temperature based on the ambient-stabilized thermal image; and measuring, based on the estimated scene temperature and a calibrated attenuation factor, a temperature of each of at least one object shown in the input thermal image, where the temperature of each of the at least one object is measured independently of the ambient temperature of the radiometric camera.

Thermal camera, and method thereof for early diagnosis of infectious diseases

A system and method for correcting oversaturated pixels in far-infrared (FIR) images captured by a shutterless FIR camera. The method includes identifying oversaturated pixels based on a pixel value analysis of an input image; creating an oversaturated pixel mask of the input image, where the oversaturated pixel mask includes the identified oversaturated pixels and excludes pixels not identified as oversaturated pixels; and correcting the oversaturated pixels of the current image using the oversaturated pixel mask, based on a scene-based nonuniformity correction (SBNC).

A method and apparatus for correcting nonuniformity noise in thermal images. The method comprises receiving a current image being part of a stream of thermal images; concatenating the current image from the stream of thermal images with hidden state images; processing, by a first convolutional neural network, the concatenated image to extract a number of feature channels; generating based on the feature channels at least a first multiplicative mask; processing, by a second convolutional neural network, a masked concatenated image to compute a weighting parameter, wherein the masked concatenated image is resulted by applying the first multiplicative mask on the concatenated image; and simulating, using the weighting parameter, an infinite impulse response (IIR)-style updating scheme to estimate the nonuniformity noise in the current image.

Scene-based nonuniformity correction using a convolutional recurrent neural network

A shutterless far-infrared (FIR) camera for advanced driver assistance systems, including at least one optical unit including at least one lens; an FIR sensor coupled to the optical unit and configured to capture FIR images; and an integrated circuit (IC) configured to process the captured FIR images to output an enhanced thermal video stream, wherein the IC further includes: a processing circuitry; and a memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the processing circuitry to perform image corrections including at least a shutterless correction.

Shutterless far infrared (FIR) camera for automotive safety and driving systems

A system and method for correcting nonuniformity in far-infrared (FIR) images captured by a shutterless FIR camera. The method includes determining a noise of a current image based on updating a noise estimate of a previous image with a noise estimate of a current image; determining a weight mask matrix of the current image, where the weight matrix includes high values corresponding to pixels of the current image in which noise estimation is facilitated, and low values corresponding to pixels of the current image in which noise estimation is inhibited; applying the weight mask matrix to the current image; and correcting the nonuniformity of the current image incrementally based on the determined noise of current image and the applied weight mask matrix.

Techniques for scene-based nonuniformity correction in shutterless FIR cameras

An infrared camera assembly for a vehicle. The assembly includes: a vehicle component having a front surface; a shutterless far-infrared (FIR) camera mounted within the vehicle component, wherein the shutterless FIR camera is utilized to output at least one thermal video stream processed by the autonomous vehicle system; and a protective window disposed on at least a portion of the front surface of the vehicle component, where the protective window is positioned to be aligned with a lens of the FIR camera, so as to allow the shutterless FIR camera to capture images therethrough.

Infrared camera assembly for a vehicle

A system and method for correcting fixed pattern noise in far-infrared (FIR) images captured by a shutterless FIR camera. The method includes: determining a drift coefficient based on previously determined calibration values and high pass filter values applied to an input FIR image captured by the shutterless FIR camera; smoothing the drift coefficient based, in part, on previously computed drift coefficient values; and removing noise from the input image based on the smoothed drift coefficient value.

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