Color filter array demosaicking using high-order interpolation techniques with a weighted median filter for sharp color edge preservation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1946-1957

  Li, Jim S ^a   Randhawa, Sharmil ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Color filter array; Cubic spline; Demosaicking; Taylor series; Weighted median filter

Indexed keywords

COLOR ARTIFACT; COLOR EDGES; COLOR FILTER ARRAY; COLOR FILTER ARRAYS; COLOR IMAGES; COLOR VALUES; CUBIC SPLINE; CUBIC-SPLINE INTERPOLATION; DEMOSAICKING; ESTIMATION PROCESS; FILTER COEFFICIENTS; HIGH-ORDER; INTERPOLANTS; INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; ORIENTATION MAPS; WEIGHTED MEDIAN FILTER;

CAMERAS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE ACQUISITION; INTERPOLATION; SPLINES; TAYLOR SERIES;

COLOR;

EID: 69349093697     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2022291     Document Type: Article

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