Demosaicing algorithms for area- and line-scan cameras in print inspection

  • Authors:

  • Dorothea Heiss-Czedik;Reinhold Huber-Mörk;Daniel Soukup;Harald Penz;Beatriz López García

  • Affiliations:

  • Business Unit High Performance Image Processing, Department Safety & Security, Austrian Institute of Technology, A-2444 Seibersdorf, Austria;Business Unit High Performance Image Processing, Department Safety & Security, Austrian Institute of Technology, A-2444 Seibersdorf, Austria;Business Unit High Performance Image Processing, Department Safety & Security, Austrian Institute of Technology, A-2444 Seibersdorf, Austria;Business Unit High Performance Image Processing, Department Safety & Security, Austrian Institute of Technology, A-2444 Seibersdorf, Austria;Business Unit High Performance Image Processing, Department Safety & Security, Austrian Institute of Technology, A-2444 Seibersdorf, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Most color image sensors use color filter arrays (CFA). With this sensor design the captured information at each sensor pixel position is restricted to a specific spectral portion (typically red, green and blue bands). To obtain the missing color responses at each pixel position, so-called CFA demosaicing algorithms are commonly used. We propose two new CFA demosaicing algorithms, which are well suited for industrial print inspection with respect to the requirements in accuracy and speed. As a main contribution, we introduce novel demosaicing algorithms for specific high-speed color digital time delay and integration (DTDI) CFA line-scan cameras. We compare the suggested CFA demosaicing algorithms to state-of-the art algorithms for area and line-scan camera operation modes. We show that the two new algorithms perform superior to conventional algorithms as indicated by reconstruction error.