• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.242-245
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• 2000

In this paper, we present a color interpolation technique based on artificial neural networks for a single-chip CCD (charge-coupled device) camera with a Bayer color filter array (CFA). Single-chip digital cameras use a color filter array and an interpolation method in order to regenerate high quality color images from sparsely sampled images. We applied 3-layer feedforward neural networks in order to interpolate missing pixel from surrounding pixels. And we compared the proposed method with conventional interpolation methods such as the proposed interpolation algorithm based on neural networks provides a better performance than the conventional interpolation algorithms.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.164-173
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• 2016

Demosaicing, or color filter array (CFA) interpolation, estimates missing color channels of raw mosaiced images from a CFA to reproduce full-color images. It is an essential process for single-sensor digital cameras with CFAs. In this paper, a new demosaicing method for digital cameras with Bayer-like W-RGB CFAs is proposed. To preserve the edge structure when reproducing full-color images, we propose an edge direction-adaptive method using color difference estimation between different channels, which can be applied to practical digital camera use. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method in terms of CPSNR, FSIM, and S-CIELAB color distance measures, we perform simulations on sets of mosaiced images captured by an actual prototype digital camera with a Bayer-like W-RGB CFA. The simulation results show that the proposed method demosaics better than a conventional one by approximately +22.4% CPSNR, +0.9% FSIM, and +36.7% S-CIELAB distance.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.171-173
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• 2000

In this paper, we present a new interpolation method for the color filter away(CFA). In order to capture color images. typical input devices use a single chip CCD imaging sensor with color filter array. As a result, the single chip CCD does not provide sufficient color resolutions since it arranges different color filters sequentially on a single CCD, resulting in aliasing noise and loss of resolution. In order to reconstruct high quality color images, we propose to use the interpolation algorithm using high order B-splines. Experiments show promising results.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.742-748
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• 2009

대부분의 상업적 디지털카메라들은 가격과 크기를 줄이기 위해서 Color Filter Array (CFA)를 사용한다. CFA를 통과한 이미지는 픽셀 당 오직 단일 칼라정보만 가지고 있기 때문에, 정보를 잃어버린 나머지 2개의 색 정보를 얻기 위해서 보간을 해야하는데 이 과정을 디모자이킹 (Demosaicing) 이라고 부른다. 수 많은 디모자이킹 알고리듬 방법들이 제안되어 왔음에도 불구하고, 여전히 무지개 형태의 에러 (rainbow artifact) 와 지퍼 모양의 에러 (zippering artifact) 의 문제를 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 향상된 가중치 함수를 이용하여 주변 픽셀값들의 경향성을 이용한 디모자이킹 알고리듬 방법을 제안한다. 실험결과, 우리가 제안한 알고리듬은 주관적 화질뿐만 아니라 객관적 화질에서도 기존의 방법들보다 뛰어다나는 것을 보여준다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2009년도 9th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.76-78
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• 2009

A liquid crystal display that does not use color filters is proposed. A backlight unit that employs compartmentalized RGB LED arrays and a lenticular lens array is used instead of the color filters in order to direct RGB LED lights into the RGB subpixels. A design of color-filterless LED backlight and experimental results are presented.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.838-841
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• 2009

This paper proposes a novel lossless coding scheme for Bayer color filter array (CFA) images which are generally used as internal data of color digital cameras having a single image sensor. The scheme employs a block-adaptive prediction method to exploit spatial and spectral correlations in local areas containing different color signals. In order to allow adaptive prediction suitable for the respective color signals, four kinds of linear predictors which correspond to 2 ${\times}$ 2 samples of Bayer CFA are simultaneously switched block-by-block. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme outperforms other state-of-the-art lossless coding schemes in terms of coding efficiency for Bayer CFA images.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2012년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.656-659
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• 2012

일반적으로 컬러 필터 배열(Color Filter Array: CFA)로부터 획득된 영상은 디모자이킹(demosaicking) 과정을 통해 소실된 컬러 정보를 복원한 후 압축을 수행하므로 데이터의 중복성(redundancy)이 발생한다. 따라서 부호화기에서 보간 과정 없이 압축을 수행하고 복호화기에서 복원된 영상을 보간하는 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 기존 방법이 전처리 과정에서 영상을 GBR 또는 YUV 4:2:2 형식으로 변환하는 반면, 본 논문에서는 YCoCg 4:2:2 형식의 변환 방법을 거쳐 압축을 수행한다. 또한 영상의 G성분의 샘플링 위치를 고려하여 휘도 성분의 H.264 화면 내 예측기의 방향성 및 참조 픽셀을 변경하여 적용하였다. 제안 방법은 기존 H.264 YUV4:2:0 인트라 예측 방법과 비교하여 평균적으로 3.91%의 비트율 감소와 0.04dB의 PSNR 증가를 보여준다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제63권10호
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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.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제20권11호
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• pp.1741-1749
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• 2017

In commercial digital-cameras, color-filter filters light according to wavelength range of color filter array (CFA) and the filtered intensities contain color information of light. Then, output data of CFA is transformed to final rendered image through demosaicing process. In image processing of digital-camera, the quality of the final rendered image is affected by optical cross talk of CFA, kind of CFA pattern etc. Basically, pattern of CFA plays important role in image quality of final image rendered by digital-camera. Therefore, an evaluation system capable of quantitatively evaluating CFA is needed. This paper proposes a novel evaluation system using existing and proposed image metrics for evaluating CFAs of digital-camera. Proposed CFA evaluation system consist of color difference in CIELAB and S-CIELAB, Structure SImilarity (SSIM), MTF50, moire starting point (MSP), and subjective preference (SP). MSP and SP are newly designed for the proposed evaluation system. Proposed evaluation system is expressed in polar coordinates to analyze the characteristics of CFA objectively and intuitively. Through simulations, we confirmed that proposed CFA evaluation system can objectively assess performance of developed CFAs.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.1581-1588
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• 2010

대부분의 디지털 촬영 장치는 비용 및 속도 상의 이점을 위해 Color Filter Array(CFA)를 포함하고 있는 단일 이미지 센서를 사용한다. 따라서 완전한 컬러 영상으로 복원하기 위하여 다양한 컬러 보간 방법이 개발되고 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 컬러 보간 방법 중, 방향성 필터를 이용하여 수직, 수평, 대각선 방향의 에지를 고려한 컬러 보간 방법에 관한 것이다. 하드웨어 구현을 위해 하드웨어 자원의 효율성을 고려하였다. Kodak 테스트 영상 24장으로 실험하여 기존 방법과 비교함으로써 제안한 방법의 성능을 확인하였다. Verilog HDL로 구현하였으며, Virtex4 FPGA 보드와 CMOS 이미지 센서를 이용하여 검증하였다.