Novel color demosaicking for noisy color filter array data

  • Authors:

  • Yu Zhang;Guangyi Wang;Jiangtao Xu;Zaifeng Shi;Dexing Dong

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Electronic and Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, P.R. China;Institute of Electronic and Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, P.R. China;School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P.R. China;School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P.R. China;Brigates Microelectronics Co., Ltd., Kunshan, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Single sensor digital color still/video cameras use color demosaicking to reproduce full color images from color filter array (CFA) data. The quality of interpolated image will be degraded due to the sensor noise introduced during the image capture process. Many conventional demosaicking-denoising solutions adopt the channel-dependent noise model, which may fit the CMOS/CCD image sensor less than signal-dependent noise model. In this paper, the wavelet sub-band decomposition and synthesis are applied to interpolate the CFA data with signal-dependent noise model. The major contributions of this work include: (1) The combination of LMMSE and statistical calculation in wavelet domain are utilized to suppress the signal-dependent noise, which is separated into additive noise and multiplicative noise. (2) In CFA data, it has been verified that the quantitative relationship between the current pixel and the adjacent pixel, which locate in the same edge. Both simulated and real CFA images are employed to compare the proposed algorithm with the state-of-the-art techniques reported in the literature. The experimental results confirm that our method outperforms them both on demosaicking performance and on computational cost, when they process the noisy color filter array data.