To expand and investigate the potential of spectral imaging, we developed a portable multispectral system using light-emitting diodes. This system recovers spectral information from the UV to the near IR over a large area using two different image sensors synchronized with 23 bands of illumination. The system was assessed for spectral reconstruction through simulations and experimental measurem...

The Modular Optoelectronic Multispectral Stereo-Scanner MOMS-2P is collecting digital multispectral and threefold along track stereoscopic imagery of the earth's surface from the PRIRODA module of the Russian space station MIR since September 1996. The paper describes that part of the geometric in ight calibration which deals with the multispectral imaging modes to guarantee band to band regist...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the potential of endogenous multispectral fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) for biochemical characterization of human coronary atherosclerotic plaques. METHODS Endogenous multispectral FLIM imaging was performed on the lumen of 58 segments of postmortem human coronary artery. The fluorescence was separated into three emission bands targeting the three ma...

A new approach for generating high-speed multispectral images has been developed. The central concept is that spectra can be acquired for each pixel in a confocal spatial scan by using a fast spectrometer based on optical fiber delay lines. This concept merges fast spectroscopy with standard spatial scanning to create datacubes in real time. The spectrometer is based on a serial array of reflec...

Hybrid-resolution multispectral imaging is a framework to acquire multispectral images through a reconstruction procedure using two types of measurement data with different spatial and spectral resolutions. In this paper, we propose a new method for such a framework on the basis of a full-resolution RGB image and the data obtained from an image sensor with a multispectral filter array (MSFA). I...

Multispectral imaging has shown promise in subcutaneous vein detection and localization in human subjects. While many limitations of single-wavelength methods are addressed in multispectral vein detection methods, their performance is still limited by artifacts arising from background skin reflectance and optimality of postprocessing algorithms. We propose a background removal technique that en...

The Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) was a mast-mounted instrument on the Mars Pathfinder lander which landed on Mars’ Ares Vallis floodplain on July 4, 1997. During the 83 sols of Mars Pathfinders landed operations, the IMP collected over 16,600 images. Multispectral images were collected using twelve narrowband filters at wavelengths between 400 and 1000 nm in the visible and near infrared (V...

The light reflected from a surface depends on the scene geometry, the incident illumination and the surface material. One of the properties of the material is its albedo ρ(λ) and its variation with respect to wavelength. The albedo of a surface is purely a physical property. Our perception of albedo is commonly referred to as colour. This paper presents a novel methodology for extracting the al...

Cultural heritage is increasingly put through imaging systems such as multispectral cameras and 3D scanners. Though these acquisition systems are often used independently, they collect complementary information (spectral vs. spatial) used for the study, archiving and visualization of cultural heritage. Recording 3D and multispectral data in a single coordinate system enhances the potential insi...

Multispectral imaging was employed to collect data on the degradation of an 18 century parchment by a series of physical and chemical treatments. Each sample was photographed before and after treatment by a monochrome digital camera with 21 narrow-band filters, with the objective of assessing algorithms for recovery of text from the images. A template-matching technique was used to detect the c...