Rectangular pixels for efficient color image sampling

Tripurari Singh; Mritunjay Singh

doi:10.1117/12.872248

24 January 2011 Rectangular pixels for efficient color image sampling

Tripurari Singh, Mritunjay Singh

Proceedings Volume 7876, Digital Photography VII; 78760V (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872248
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2011, San Francisco Airport, California, United States

Abstract

We present CFA designs that faithfully capture images with specified luminance and chrominance bandwidths. Previous academic research has mostly been concerned with maximizing PSNR of reconstructed images without regard to chrominance bandwidth and cross-talk. Commercial systems, on the other hand, pay close attention to both these parameters as well as to the visual quality of reconstructed images. They commonly sacrifice resolution by using a sufficiently aggressive OLPF to achieve low cross-talk and artifact free images. In this paper, we present the so called Chrominance Bandwidth Ratio, r, model in an attempt to capture both the chrominance bandwidth and the cross-talk between the various signals. Next, we examine the effect of tuning photosite aspect ratio, a hitherto neglected design parameter, and show the benefit of setting it at a different value than the pixel aspect ratio of the display. We derive panchromatic CFA patterns that provably minimize the photo-site count for all values of r. An interesting outcome is a CFA design that captures full chrominance bandwidth, yet uses fewer photosites than the venerable color-stripe design. Another interesting outcome is a low cost practical CFA design that captures chrominance at half the resolution of luminance using only 4 unique filter colors, that lends itself to efficient linear demosaicking, and yet vastly outperforms the Bayer CFA with identical number of photosites demosaicked with state of the art compute-intensive nonlinear algorithms.

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Tripurari Singh and Mritunjay Singh "Rectangular pixels for efficient color image sampling", Proc. SPIE 7876, Digital Photography VII, 78760V (24 January 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872248

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