Color Filter Array Demosaicking: New Method and Performance Measures

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1194-1210

  Lu, Wenmiao ^a,b   Tan, Yap Peng ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Stanford University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Color filter array demosaicking; Color interpolation; False color; Image measure; Zipper effect

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE SENSORS; INTERPOLATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ZIPPER EFFECT;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0141953964     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2003.816004     Document Type: Article

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