A geometric method for optimal design of color filter arrays

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 709-722

  Hao, Pengwei ^a,e   Li, Yan ^b   Lin, Zhouchen ^c   Dubois, Eric ^d  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Color filter array (CFA); demosaicking; discrete fourier transform (DFT); multiplexing; sampling

Indexed keywords

COLOR COMPONENT; COLOR FILTER ARRAYS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; CONVEX POLYGON; CONVEX POLYHEDRONS; DEMOSAICKING; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY STRUCTURE; GEOMETRIC METHOD; OPTIMAL DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SELECTIVE FILTERS; SPEED-UPS; TWO-COMPONENT;

CAMERAS; COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DIGITAL FILTERS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FLOW FIELDS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; MULTIPLEXING; PIXELS;

DESIGN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLOR; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79951831207     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2077642     Document Type: Article

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