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Optica, Optics Express, 26(31), p. 44199, 2023

DOI: 10.1364/oe.512233

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Robust real-time estimation of non-uniform angular velocity and sub-pixel jitter in images captured with resonant scanners

Journal article published in 2023 by Gastón A. Ayubi ORCID, Alfredo Dubra ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Images captured with resonant scanners are affected by angular velocity fluctuations that result in image distortion and by poor synchronization between scanning and light detection that creates jitter between image rows. We previously demonstrated that both problems can be mitigated in post-processing by recording the scanner orientation in synchrony with the image capture, followed by data resampling [Opt. Express 30, 112 (2022)10.1364/OE.446162]. Here we introduce more robust algorithms for estimation of both angular velocity fluctuation and jitter in the presence of random and deterministic noise. We also show linearization of the scanner oscillation model to reduce calculation times by two orders of magnitude, reaching 65,000 jitter estimations per second when using 2,800 samples per image row, and 500,000 when using only 500 samples, easily supporting real-time generation of jitter-corrected images.