• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.67-69
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• 2010

대부분의 디지털 카메라는 컬러 필터 배열(Color Filter Array)을 가진 하나의 영상 획득 센서를 사용한다. 따라서 영상획득 이후에 컬러 보간 알고리즘이 필수적으로 진행된다. 또 영상 획득 과정에서 센서의 열화나 암전류 등과 같은 잡음이 발생하여 영상 잡음 제거 알고리즘이 필요하다. 하지만 기존의 대부분의 영상 잡음 제거 알고리즘은 컬러 필터 배열 영상의 특징인 모자이크 데이터 기반이 아닌 컬러 보간 이후의 풀 컬러영상에(YCbCr) 적용되고 있다. 따라서 잡음이 포함된 영상으로 컬러 보간을 할 경우 잡음의 공간적 상관관계(spatial correlation)가 커짐에 의한 잡음 번짐 때문에 컬러 보간 이후의 잡음제거는 더욱 어렵게 된다. 이와 같은 문제를 해결하기 위해 컬러 필터 배열 영상에 대한 잡음제거 알고리즘이 연구되고 있으며, 본 논문에서도 CMOS/CCD의 이미지 센서에서 획득된 베이어 컬러 필터 배열 영상에서 잡음을 제거하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이를 위해서 베이어 컬러 필터 배열 영상 데이터에서 경계(edge)의 방향성을 고려한 LMMSE 방법을 기반으로 한 잡음제거 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 영상의 경계를 보존해주며 잡음제거 과정 다음에 진행되는 컬러 보간 과정에서의 잡음 번짐의 문제를 해결할 수 있다. 실험 결과를 통해 향상된 잡음 제거 효과를 확인하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.561-565
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• 2011

This paper presents an imaging system for reconstruction of enhanced color images using the conventional Bayer CFA. By extracting various colors such as RGBCY from two sequential images which consist of a image by broadband G channel lens filter and the other image captured without one, the proposed color image reconstruction system can reduce the computational complexity for demosaicking and make high resolution color information without aliasing artifacts. Because the proposed system uses the common Bayer CFA image sensor, fabricating a new type of CFA is not necessary for obtaining a multi-spectral image, which can be easily extensible for applications of multi-spectral imaging. Finally, in order to verify the performance of the proposed system, experimental results are performed. By comparing with the existing demosaicking methods, the proposed camera system showed the significant improvements in the sense of color resolution.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.86-94
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose spatially adaptive color demosaicing of noisy Bayer data. When sensor noises are not considered in demosaicing, they may degrade result image. In order to obtain high resolution image, sensor noises are considered in the color demosaicing step. We identify flat, edge and pattern regions at each pixel location to improve the performance of the algorithm and to reduce complexity. Based on the pre-classified regions, the demosaicing of the G channel is performed using the local statistics to reduce the interpolation error. The sensor noise is simultaneously removed by a modified version of non-local mean filter in the green and in the color difference domain. The R and B channels are interpolated easily using fully interpolated and denoised G and color difference values. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a significant improvement in terms of visual and numerical criteria, when compared to conventional methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.1-10
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a novel way of combining color demosaicing and the auto white balance (AWB) method, which are important parts of image processing. Performance of the AWB is generally affected by demosaicing results because most AWB algorithms are performed posterior to color demosaicing. In order to increase the performance and efficiency of the AWB algorithm, the color constancy problem is considered during the color demosaicing step. Initial estimates of the directional luminance and chrominance values are defined for estimating edge direction and calculating the AWB gain. We propose a modified edge-based AWB method that used a pre-defined achromatic region. The estimation of edge direction is performed region adaptively by using the local statistics of the initial estimates of the luminance and chrominance information. The proposed method shows significant improvements in terms of visual and numerical criteria when compared to conventional methods.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.63 no.10
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• pp.1434-1440
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• 2014

This paper describes a demosaicking method for hexagonally-structured color filter array. Demosaicking is essential to acquire color images using color filter array (CFA) in single sensor imaging. Thus, CFA patterns have been discussed in order to improve image quality in single sensor imaging after the Bayer pattern are introduced. Advancements in imaging sensor technology recently introduce a hexagonal CFA pattern. The hexagonal CFA can be considered to be a 45-degree rotational version of the Bayer pattern, thus demosaicking can be implemented by an existing method with backward and forward 45-degree rotations. However, this approach requires heavy computing power and memory in image sensing devices because of the image rotations. To overcome this problem, we proposes a demosaicking method for a hexagonal Bayer CFA without rotations. In addition, we introduce a weighting parameter in our demosaicking method to improve image quality and to unifying exiting method with our method. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method is superior to conventional methods in terms of PSNR. In addition, some optimized values for the weighting parameter are provided experimentally.