Spatially adaptive color filter array interpolation for noiseless and noisy data

International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 105-122

  Paliy, Dmitriy ^a   Katkovnik, Vladimir ^a   Bilcu, Radu ^b   Alenius, Sakari ^b   Egiazarian, Karen ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayer pattern; Color filter array interpolation; Sensor noise; Spatially adaptive denoising

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERPOLATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; SENSOR ARRAYS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BAYER PATTERNS; COLOR CHANNELS; COLOR FILTER ARRAYS (CFA); SENSOR NOISE; SPATIALLY ADAPTIVE DENOISING;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING;

EID: 35748942251     PISSN: 08999457     EISSN: 10981098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ima.20109     Document Type: Article

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