Design considerations of color image processing pipeline for digital cameras

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1144-1152

  Kao, Wen Chung ^a   Wang, Sheng Hong ^b   Chen, Lien Yang ^a   Lin, Sheng Yuan ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Foxlink Image Technology Corporation   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Auto white balance; Color reproduction; Exposure adjustment; Image processing pipeline

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; EXPOSURE CONTROLS; IMAGE SENSORS;

AUTO WHITE BALANCE; EXPOSURE ADJUSTMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING PIPELINE;

CAMERAS;

EID: 33846897807     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2006.273126     Document Type: Article

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