Simulate exposure bracketing with sensorCompute

Exposure bracketing acquires a series of exposures. You can simulate exposure bracketing by setting the exposure time to be a vector of numbers. The calculation is illustrated here. You can then visualize all of the different exposures in the sensor window, which has a slider that lets you scan through the different exposures.

The code first illustrates working with scene, oi, sensor directly. Then it shows the same calculation using a camera object.

See also: sensorCompute, cameraCreate, cameraWindow

Create a scene, oi, and sensor
Set a range of exposure times
Display the shortest exposure
Longest
This is very short code when you work with a camera object

ieInit

Create a scene, oi, and sensor

% This could be cameraCreate, but for teaching being explicit about the
% objects seems better.
scene  = sceneCreate;
scene  = sceneSet(scene,'fov',4);

oi     = oiCreate;
oi     = oiCompute(oi,scene);
sensor = sensorCreate;

Set a range of exposure times

T1 = [0.02 0.04 0.08 0.16 0.32];  % Times
sensor     = sensorSet(sensor,'Exp Time',T1);
nExposures = length(T1);

% Compute all the exposure durations
exposurePlane = floor(nExposures/2) + 1;
sensor = sensorSet(sensor,'exposure plane',exposurePlane);
sensor = sensorCompute(sensor,oi);
ieAddObject(sensor);

% Notice on the lower right the Bracket, and how there is a slider on the
% lower left that is labeled 'Exposure'. Adjust the slider on the lower
% left of the window to show a different exposure duration.
sensorWindow;

Display the shortest exposure

sensor = sensorSet(sensor,'exposure plane',1);
vcReplaceObject(sensor); sensorWindow;

Longest

sensor = sensorSet(sensor,'exposure plane',5);
vcReplaceObject(sensor); sensorWindow;

This is very short code when you work with a camera object

camera = cameraCreate;
camera = cameraSet(camera,'sensor exp time',T1);
camera = cameraCompute(camera,scene);
cameraWindow(camera,'sensor');