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Color reproduction from noisy CFA data of single sensor digital cameras.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  17784592     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Single sensor digital color still/video cameras capture images using a color filter array (CFA) and require color interpolation (demosaicking) to reconstruct full color images. The color reproduction has to combat sensor noises which are channel dependent. If untreated in demosaicking, sensor noises can cause color artifacts that are hard to remove later by a separate denoising process, because the demosaicking process complicates the noise characteristics by blending noises of different color channels. This paper presents a joint demosaicking-denoising approach to overcome this difficulty. The color image is restored from noisy mosaic data in two steps. First, the difference signals of color channels are estimated by linear minimum mean square-error estimation. This process exploits both spectral and spatial correlations to simultaneously suppress sensor noise and interpolation error. With the estimated difference signals, the full resolution green channel is recovered. The second step involves in a wavelet-based denoising process to remove the CFA channel-dependent noises from the reconstructed green channel. The red and blue channels are subsequently recovered. Simulated and real CFA mosaic data are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed joint demosaicking-denoising scheme and compare it with many recently developed sophisticated demosaicking and denoising schemes.
Authors:
Lei Zhang; Xiaolin Wu; David Zhang
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society     Volume:  16     ISSN:  1057-7149     ISO Abbreviation:  IEEE Trans Image Process     Publication Date:  2007 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2007-09-05     Completed Date:  2007-12-31     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9886191     Medline TA:  IEEE Trans Image Process     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  2184-97     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hum, Kowloon, Hong Kong. cslzhang@comp.polyu.edu.hk
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Artifacts
Colorimetry / instrumentation*,  methods*
Equipment Failure
Image Enhancement / instrumentation,  methods*
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
Photography / instrumentation*,  methods*
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Transducers*

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