System and method for robust multi-frame demosaicing and color super-resolution
US7412107B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 12, 2005 |
| Grant date | Aug 12, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 7, 2026 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2207/20192
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An integrated method for both super-resolution and multi-frame demosaicing includes an image fusion followed by simultaneous deblurring and interpolation. For the case of color super-resolution, the first step involves application of recursive image fusion separately on the three different color layers. The second step is based on minimizing a maximum a posteriori (MAP) cost function. In one embodiment, the MAP cost function is composed of several terms: a data fidelity penalty term that penalizes dissimilarity between the raw data and the super-resolved estimate, a luminance penalty term that favors sharp edges in the luminance component of the image, a chrominance penalty term that favors low spatial frequency changes in the chrominance component of the image, and an orientation penalty term that favors similar edge orientations across the color channels. The method is also applicable to color super-resolution (without demosaicing), where the low-quality input images are already demosaiced. In addition, for translational motion, the method may be used in a very fast image fusion algorithm to facilitate the implementation of dynamic, multi-input/multi-output color super-resolution…
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