| Title |
Demosaicking of Hexagonally-Structured Bayer Color Filter Array |
| Authors |
이경미(Lee, Kyungme) ; 유훈(Yoo, Hoon) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2014.63.10.1434 |
| Keywords |
Demosaicking ; Hexagonal sensor ; Bayer color filter array ; Interpolation |
| Abstract |
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. |