Superresolution using gray level coding

Abstract

In this paper we describe a super-resolving approach based upon gray level coding of the information. Thus, the imaged object should have limited number of gray levels. The proposed approach overcomes the resolution limitations caused either by the optics or by the finite size of the detector. In contrast to other existing super resolution techniques that use time or wavelength multiplexing, in this approach one does not need to pay neither in temporal nor in wavelength degrees of freedom, but in intensity dynamic range. After the gray coding and the imaging, the high frequency spatial resolution features are decoded using the decoding gray level lookup table.