Color demosaicking via directional linear minimum mean square-error estimation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2167-2178

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Wu, Xiaolin ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayer color filter array (CFA); Color demosaicking; Directional filtering; Linear minimum mean square error estimation (LMMSE)

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERPOLATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VISION;

BAYER COLOR FILTER ARRAY (CFA); COLOR DEMOSAICKING; DIRECTIONAL FILTERING; LINEAR MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE-ERROR ESTIMATION (LMMSE);

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 28844452950     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.857260     Document Type: Article

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