photon_statistics — PHOTON counting op

• Data kinds: image2d → table

• Call: import fullseye as fs; fs.ledger.photon_statistics(counts) (implementation को सीधे call करना हो तो import photoncount; photoncount.photon_statistics(counts), registry से लेना हो तो opsphoton.get("photon_statistics"))

उपयोग

photon-count frame के Poisson statistics: क्या यह सच में shot-noise limited है?

> नीचे का विस्तृत विवरण मूल text में है — सारांश और headings का अनुवाद हो चुका है।

Returns a dict: mean · variance (population, ddof=0) · fano_factor = variance / mean (1 for a Poisson process) · snr_poisson = sqrt(mean) (the theoretical photon-limited SNR) · snr_measured = mean / std (what this frame actually achieved) · total_counts · n_samples · zero_fraction (the fraction of pixels that saw no photon at all — the honest measure of "photon starved"; exp(-lambda) for a flat field) · max_counts.

The Fano factor is evidence of Poisson statistics only on a flat field. On a structured scene the scene's own spatial variance dominates and the ratio is large and meaningless — this op computes the number, it cannot tell you which situation you are in. Measured on the test scenes: a flat lambda = 100 field (512x512, seed 0) gives 1.001089; the same detector looking at a linear ramp from 20 to 180 photons gives 22.4102. Both are "correct" and only one of them means anything.

Raises ValueError: negative, non-finite or non-2-D *counts*, fewer than 2 pixels (no variance), an all-zero frame (fano_factor would be 0/0 — say "no photons were detected" instead of returning NaN), and a frame with exactly zero variance (snr_measured would be inf; for n >= 2 a constant frame is not a Poisson realisation but a synthetic constant, i.e. an input mistake).

उपयोग की विस्तृत guide

• photon_timeresolved family guide

संदर्भ (sample data, साहित्य)

• Sample data catalog (DL URL / license) — 2-D के लिए skimage.data (BSD/public) + synthetic, 3-D के लिए real data sources (Stanford/PDS आदि) के DL URL।

• Operators का स्रोत और संदर्भ — इस op family के मूल research/methods के स्रोत।

• Algorithm का मानक स्रोत (लेखक, वर्ष) और उपयोग ऊपर की family usage guide में दिए गए हैं।

चलाए जा सकने वाले उदाहरण (verified samples जो सच में यह op call करते हैं)

• photon_timeresolved — py -3.11 examples/photon_timeresolved.py

वे अगले ops जिनसे type जुड़ता है (table को input के रूप में लेते हैं)

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इसी category के (counting)

photon_sample · photon_uncertainty


*Provenance: photoncount.py — PHOTON operator registry. यह per-op note tools/opdocs.py md से अपने-आप generate होता है (हाथ से edit न करें)।*

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