Digital color cameras acquire color images by means of a sensor on which a color filter array (CFA) is overlaid. The Bayer CFA dominates the consumer market and little attention has been directed to the design of alternative CFAs in the literature. Recent works of Hirakawa et al. [1]–[4] introduced new insights in this field by focusing on the spectral properties of CFAs and operating directly ...

This paper presents a new noise model and its application to Bayer color filter array (CFA). We investigate the effect of various noise models. In addition, we study three possible Bayer patterns. For example, current Bayer CFA utilizes RGGB pattern. However, one may consider other color combinations such as RRGB or RGBB patterns. To prove RGGB pattern’s superiority, we investigate each pattern...

In single-sensor digital imaging a color filter array, that is overlaid onto the image sensor, makes color images possible. Incident light rays become band-limited and each sensor element captures either red, green or blue light. Interpolating the missing two color components for each pixel location is known as demosaicing. This paper proposes to firstly derive an estimated luminance image by l...

This paper proposes 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 this paper, in order to increase the performance and efficiency of the AWB algorithm, the color const...

This article introduces a new image sharpening approach suitable for single-sensor digital cameras equipped with a Bayer color filter array (CFA). The proposed solution firstly enhances the structural content of the captured CFA image data. Subsequent demosaicking of the enhanced CFA image data produces a visually pleasing full-color image which is noticeably sharper compared to the output of t...

A color-separation system that angularly positions color LEDs to produce color separation and a lens array to focus this light onto the pixels is proposed. The LED rays from different incident angles are mapped into corresponding sub-pixel positions to efficiently display color image, which can be used to replace the absorbing color filter in the conventional liquid crystal layer. In this paper...

Color dropout refers to the process of converting color form documents to black and white by removing the colors that are part of the blank form and maintaining only the information entered in the form. In this paper, no prior knowledge of the form type is assumed. Color dropout is performed by associating darker non-dropout colors with information that is entered in the form and needs to be pr...

Color image difference metrics are of great importance in the field of color image reproduction. In this study, we introduce an adaptive bilateral filter for predicting color image difference. This filter is simple, employing two Gaussian smoothing filters in different domains, which avoids the loss of edge information when smoothing the image. However, the challenge is to select appropriate pa...

State-of-the-art CMOS imagers are composed of very small pixels, so it is critical for plasmonic imaging to understand the optical response of finite-size hole arrays and their coupling efficiency to CMOS image sensor pixels. Here, we demonstrate that the transmission spectra of finite-size hole arrays can be accurately described by only accounting for up to the second nearest-neighbor scatteri...

In a typical digital camera, the colors of the scene are captured by a single CCD or CMOS sensor array, where for each pixel the sensor detects a particular color channel. This kind of sensor is called Color Filter Array. The remaining two color channel values need to be estimated to obtain a complete color image. This technique is called demosaicing or Color Filter Array interpolation. This pr...