Evaluation of a hyperspectral image database for demosaicking purposes

Mohamed-Chaker Larabi; Sabine Süsstrunk

doi:10.1117/12.876764

24 January 2011 Evaluation of a hyperspectral image database for demosaicking purposes

Proceedings Volume 7876, Digital Photography VII; 78760C (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.876764
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2011, San Francisco Airport, California, United States

Abstract

We present a study on the the applicability of hyperspectral images to evaluate color filter array (CFA) design and the performance of demosaicking algorithms. The aim is to simulate a typical digital still camera processing pipe-line and to compare two different scenarios: evaluate the performance of demosaicking algorithms applied to raw camera RGB values before color rendering to sRGB, and evaluate the performance of demosaicking algorithms applied on the final sRGB color rendered image. The second scenario is the most frequently used one in literature because CFA design and algorithms are usually tested on a set of existing images that are already rendered, such as the Kodak Photo CD set containing the well-known lighthouse image. We simulate the camera processing pipe-line with measured spectral sensitivity functions of a real camera. Modeling a Bayer CFA, we select three linear demosaicking techniques in order to perform the tests. The evaluation is done using CMSE, CPSNR, s-CIELAB and MSSIM metrics to compare demosaicking results. We find that the performance, and especially the difference between demosaicking algorithms, is indeed significant depending if the mosaicking/demosaicking is applied to camera raw values as opposed to already rendered sRGB images. We argue that evaluating the former gives a better indication how a CFA/demosaicking combination will work in practice, and that it is in the interest of the community to create a hyperspectral image dataset dedicated to that effect.

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Mohamed-Chaker Larabi and Sabine Süsstrunk "Evaluation of a hyperspectral image database for demosaicking purposes", Proc. SPIE 7876, Digital Photography VII, 78760C (24 January 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.876764

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