ABSTRACT

With advances in hardware and software, more and more digital cameras allow for the recording of digital video. Popular digital still image and video cameras use cost-effective single-sensor technology which acquires the visual information using a color filter array (CFA) [1], [2]. Since the original color information is subsampled by the CFA, a process called demosaicking [3], [4] has to be employed in the camera imaging pipeline to reconstruct the color information from the acquired CFA sensor readings which constitute a mosaic-like image. Refer to Chapter 1 for details on single-sensor imaging fundamentals.