Spatially adaptive color filter array interpolation for noiseless and noisy data: Articles

  • Authors:
  • Dmitriy Paliy;Vladimir Katkovnik;Radu Bilcu;Sakari Alenius;Karen Egiazarian

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 553, 33101 Tampere, Finland;Institute of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 553, 33101 Tampere, Finland;Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland;Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland;Institute of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 553, 33101 Tampere, Finland

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology - Special Issue on Applied Color Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Conventional single-chip digital cameras use color filter arrays (CFA) to sample different spectral components. Demosaicing algorithms interpolate these data to complete red, green, and blue values for each image pixel, to produce an RGB image. In this article, we propose a novel demosaicing algorithm for the Bayer CFA. For the algorithm design, we assume that, following the concept proposed in (Zhang and Wu, IEEE Trans Image Process 14 (2005), 2167–2178), the initial interpolation estimates of color channels contain two additive components: the true values of color intensities and the errors that are considered as an additive noise. A specially designed signal-adaptive filter is used to remove this so-called demosaicing noise. This filter is based on the local polynomial approximation (LPA) and the paradigm of the intersection of confidence intervals applied to select varying scales of LPA. This technique is nonlinear and spatially-adaptive with respect to the smoothness and irregularities of the image. The presented CFA interpolation (CFAI) technique takes significant advantage from assuming that the original data is noise-free. Nevertheless, in many applications, the observed data is noisy, where the noise is treated as an important intrinsic degradation of the data. We develop an adaptation of the proposed CFAI for noisy data, integrating the denoising and CFAI into a single procedure. It is assumed that the data is given according to the Bayer pattern and corrupted by signal-dependant noise common for charge-coupled device and complementary-symmetry/metal-oxide semiconductor sensors. The efficiency of the proposed approach is demonstrated by experimental results with simulated and real data. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 17, 105–122, 2007