.The ISET Digital Camera Simulator models the capture and processing of visual scenes by video imaging sensors.  It includes the the ability to simulate different visual scenes, imaging optics, sensor electronics and image processing pipelines.

ISET was designed to to help users evaluate how image capture components and algorithms influence image quality.  Clients use ISET to evaluate and select the imaging sensor that is optimal for their application. 

The ISET Graphical User Interface (see video tours)
The software package includes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) through which the user can specify the physical characteristics of a scene including the viewing conditions (e.g. illuminant, viewing distance, etc), and define parameters of the optics, sensor electronics and image processing-pipeline.  The package further includes color tools based on international standards (CIE chromaticity coordinates, color matching functions, CIELAB metrics and others) to evaluate the image quality of the processed image

The ISET Scripting Language
Creating ISET scripts, clients can optimize the parameters of an image-processing pipeline for different imaging conditions and hardware. 

ISET requires MATLAB® version 6.5 or greater and the MATLAB® image processing toolbox.

Click on different sections of this image to learn more about each of the components in the ISET image processing pipeline.