Image Restoration After Pixel Binning in Image Sensors

Tsinghua Science and Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 541-545

  Li, Hao ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Guo, Xiaolian ^a   Hu, Guangshu ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

image restoration; image sensors; pixel binning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION LOADS; DEGRADED IMAGES; DETAIL PRESERVATION; IMAGE RESTORATION; LEAST SQUARES ERRORS; PEAK SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; PIXEL VALUES; REAL-TIME IMAGE PROCESSING; RESTORATION TECHNIQUES;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SENSORS; RESTORATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PIXELS;

EID: 67651121798     PISSN: 10070214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1007-0214(09)70114-2     Document Type: Article

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