Digital camera zooming based on unified CFA image processing steps

  • Authors:
  • R. Lukac;K. Martin;K. N. Platanoitis

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of ECE, Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A unified camera image processing system that performs zooming and full color image reconstruction for single-sensor digital cameras is introduced. Compact and low-cost single-sensor solutions often lack optical zooming capabilities and thus depend on digital techniques. However, the computational power required for high-quality output using traditional techniques is generally too prohibitive to implement in such devices. The proposed scheme employs a small number of reusable, low-complexity operations and a consistent color model throughout to achieve high-quality zoomed output that is practical for hardware implementation. The high-level system components are color filter array (CFA) zooming, CFA interpolation (demosaicking) and demosaicked image postprocessing. The resulting output is consistently superior to other methods.