Demosaicking of noisy Bayer-sampled color images with least-squares luma-chroma demultiplexing and noise level estimation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 146-156

  Jeon, Gwanggil ^a   Dubois, Eric ^b  

^a SolarLight Ltd   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayer sampling; color filter array; demosaicking; noise estimation; noise model; noise reduction

Indexed keywords

BAYER SAMPLING; COLOR FILTER ARRAYS; DEMOSAICKING; NOISE ESTIMATION; NOISE MODELS;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DEMULTIPLEXING; NOISE ABATEMENT;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

EID: 84871643554     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2012.2214041     Document Type: Article

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