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 "id": "fixed-pattern-noise-cannot-be-measured-from-a",
 "kind": "feedback",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Fixed pattern noise cannot be measured from a scene, because real texture scales with gain and imitates it perfectly",
 "symptom": "The same spatial-variance estimator that gives sensible fixed pattern figures on dark frames returns enormous values on a real scene, and those values scale neatly with gain, which makes them look like a genuine sensor property.",
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 ],
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 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Measure a sensor's fixed pattern noise",
 "date": "2026-08-20",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
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  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}