A new color filter array with optimal properties for noiseless and noisy color image acquisition

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2200-2210

  Condat, Laurent ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Color filter array (CFA); color imaging; demosaicking; digital camera pipeline; luminance chrominance basis; noise sensitivity; spatio spectral sampling

Indexed keywords

COLOR FILTER ARRAYS; COLOR IMAGING; DEMOSAICKING; NOISE SENSITIVITY; SPATIO-SPECTRAL SAMPLING;

CAMERAS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DESIGN; IMAGE ACQUISITION; OPTIMIZATION;

COLOR;

EID: 79960530815     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2114355     Document Type: Article

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