Eli5: How can there be ‘noise’ in an image?

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Eli5: How can there be ‘noise’ in an image?

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In this instance, noise doesn’t mean sound.

For Eli5, you can think of it as “bad pixels”. In old-school photography, you’d say the photo was “grainy”.

Noise can happen for lots of reasons, but usually due to not enough light for the CCD to really saturate correctly.

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