Abstract
Video microscopy is a widely applied diagnostic to investigate the structure and the dynamics of particles in dusty plasmas. Reliable algorithms are required to accurately recover particle positions from the camera images. Here, four different particle positioning techniques have been tested on artificial and experimental data of dusty plasma situations. Two methods that rely on pixel-intensity thresholds were found to be strongly affected by pixel-locking errors and by noise. Two other methods-one applying spatial bandpass filters and the other fitting polynomials to the intensity pattern-yield subpixel resolution under various conditions. These two methods have been shown to be ideally suited to recover particle positions even from small-scale fluctuations that are used to derive the normal mode spectra of finite dust clusters.
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