Research Article

Design of an Active Multispectral SWIR Camera System for Skin Detection and Face Verification

Table 3

Signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the ring light illumination for different target distances and ambient lighting conditions.

Distance [m] Ambient light SNR [dB]
935 nm 1060 nm 1300 nm 1550 nm

1.5 Dark 58 66 66 64
Bright 34 42 42 41

2 Dark 53 62 62 60
Bright 32 39 38 36

3 Dark 47 57 56 54
Bright 23 33 32 30

4 Dark 44 53 52 51
Bright 21 31 30 28

Values marked with have been cut off due to sensor saturation.