Single-Sensor Imaging Methods and Applications for Digital Cameras

Single-sensor camera image processing methods are becoming increasingly important due to the emergence of digital camera based applications and commercial devices. Presenting the state of the art, Single-Sensor Imaging provides comprehensive coverage of system design, implementation, and application aspects of single-sensor imaging and digital camera processing. This book focuses on three key areas: embedded software camera platforms, camera storage formats, and decoding raw photos. The text covers a wide range of applications including color and multispectral filter array design, spectral modeling, demosaicking, spatial interpolation, white balancing, and camera image compression.

A Decade of Extraordinary GrowthThe past decade has brought a surge of growth in the technologies for digital color imaging, multidimensional signal processing, and visual scene analysis. These advances have been crucial to developing new camera-driven applications and commercial products in digital photography. Single-Sensor Imaging: Methods and Applications for Digital Cameras embraces this extraordinary progress, comprehensively covering state-of-the-art systems, processing techniques, and emerging applications. Experts Address Challenges and Trends Single-Sensor Imaging: Methods and Applications for Digital Cameras presents leading experts elucidating their own accomplishments in developing the technologies reshaping this field. The editor invited renowned authorities to address specific research challenges and recent trends in their particular areas of expertise. The book discusses single-sensor digital color imaging fundamentals, including reusable embedded software platform, digital camera image processing chain, optical filter and color filter array designs. It also details the latest techniques and approaches in contemporary and traditional digital camera color image processing and analysis for various sophisticated applications, including: Demosaicking and color restoration White balancing and color transfer Color and exposure correction Image denoising and color enhancement Image compression and storage formats Red-eye detection and removal Image resizing Video-demosaicking and superresolution imaging Image and video stabilization A Solid Foundation of Knowledge to Solve Problems Single-Sensor Imaging: Methods and Applications for Digital Cameras builds a strong fundamental understanding of theory and methods for solving many of today’s most interesting and challenging problems in digital color image and video acquisition, analysis, processing, and storage. A broad survey of the existing solutions and relevant literature makes this book a valuable resource both for researchers and those applying rapidly evolving digital camera technologies.

Single-Sensor Digital Color Imaging Fundamentals, R. Lukac Reusable Embedded Software Platform for Versatile Single-Sensor Digital Cameras, W.-C. Kao, H.-H. Wu, and S.-Y. Lin Digital Camera Image Processing Chain Design, J. E. Adams, Jr. and J.F. Hamilton, Jr. Optical Antialiasing Filters, R. Palum Spatio-Spectral Sampling and Color Filter Array Design, K. Hirakawa and P.J. Wolfe Mosaicking and Demosaicking in the Design of Multispectral Digital Cameras, L. Miao, H. Qi, and W.E. Snyder Color Filter Array Sampling of Color Images: Frequency-Domain Analysis and Associated Demosaicking Algorithms, E. Dubois Linear Minimum Mean Square Error Demosaicking, D. Alleysson, B. Chaix de Lavarene, S. Susstrunk, and J. Herault Color Filter Array Image Analysis for Joint Demosaicking and Denoising, K. Hirakawa Automatic White Balancing in Digital Photography, E. Y. Lam and G.S.K. Fung Enhancement of Digital Photographs Using Color Transfer Techniques, F. Pitie, A. Kokaram, and R. Dahyot Exposure Correction for Imaging Devices: An Overview, S. Battiato, G. Messina, and A. Castorina Digital Camera Image Storage Formats, K. A. Parulski, and R. Reisch Modelling of Image Processing Pipelines in Single-Sensor Digital Cameras, N.-X. Lian, V. Zagorodnov, and Y.-P. Tan Lossless Compression of Color Mosaic Images and Videos, N. Zhang, X. Wu, and L. Zhang Automatic Red-Eye Removal for Digital Photography, F. Gasparini and R. Schettini Image Resizing Solutions for Single-Sensor Digital Cameras, R. Lukac Video-Demosaicking, L. Zhang and W. Lian Simultaneous Demosaicking and Resolution Enhancement from Under-Sampled Image Sequences, S. Farsiu, D. Robinson, M. Elad, and P. Milanfar An Overview of Image / Video Stabilization Techniques, W.-C. Kao and S.-Y. Lin Index