28 research outputs found
Discrete wavelet transform based multispectral filter array demosaicking
International audienceThe idea of colour filter array may be adapted to multi-spectral image acquisition by integrating more filter types into the array, and developing associated demosaicking algorithms. Several methods employing discrete wavelet transform (DWT) have been proposed for CFA demosaicking. In this work, we put forward an extended use of DWT for mul-tispectral filter array demosaicking. The extension seemed straightforward, however we observed striking results. This work contributes to better understanding of the issue by demonstrating that spectral correlation and spatial resolution of the images exerts a crucial influence on the performance of DWT based demosaicking
Evaluation of the Colorimetric Performance of Single-Sensor Image Acquisition Systems Employing Colour and Multispectral Filter Array
International audienceSingle-sensor colour imaging systems mostly employ a colour filter array (CFA). This enables the acquisition of a colour image by a single sensor at one exposure at the cost of reduced spatial resolution. The idea of CFA fit itself well with multispectral purposes by incorporating more than three types of filters into the array which results in multispectral filter array (MSFA). In comparison with a CFA, an MSFA trades spatial resolution for spectral resolution. A simulation was performed to evaluate the colorimetric performance of such CFA/MSFA imaging systems and investigate the trade-off between spatial resolution and spectral resolution by comparing CFA and MSFA systems utilising various filter characteristics and demosaicking methods including intra-and inter-channel bilinear interpolation as well as discrete wavelet transformed based techniques. In general, 4-band and 8-band MSFAs provide better or comparable performance than the CFA setup in terms of CIEDE2000 and S-CIELAB colour difference. This indicates that MSFA would be favourable for colorimetric purposes
Universal Demosaicking of Color Filter Arrays
A large number of color filter arrays (CFAs), periodic or aperiodic, have been proposed. To reconstruct images from all different CFAs and compare their imaging quality, a universal demosaicking method is needed. This paper proposes a new universal demosaicking method based on inter-pixel chrominance capture and optimal demosaicking transformation. It skips the commonly used step to estimate the luminance component at each pixel, and thus, avoids the associated estimation error. Instead, we directly use the acquired CFA color intensity at each pixel as an input component. Two independent chrominance components are estimated at each pixel based on the interpixel chrominance in the window, which is captured with the difference of CFA color values between the pixel of interest and its neighbors. Two mechanisms are employed for the accurate estimation: distance-related and edge-sensing weighting to reflect the confidence levels of the inter-pixel chrominance components, and pseudoinverse-based estimation from the components in a window. Then from the acquired CFA color component and two estimated chrominance components, the three primary colors are reconstructed by a linear color transform, which is optimized for the least transform error. Our experiments show that the proposed method is much better than other published universal demosaicking methods.National Key Basic Research Project of China (973 Program) [2015CB352303, 2011CB302400]; National Natural Science Foundation (NSF) of China [61071156, 61671027]SCI(E)[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
InSPECtor: an end-to-end design framework for compressive pixelated hyperspectral instruments
Classic designs of hyperspectral instrumentation densely sample the spatial
and spectral information of the scene of interest. Data may be compressed after
the acquisition. In this paper we introduce a framework for the design of an
optimized, micro-patterned snapshot hyperspectral imager that acquires an
optimized subset of the spatial and spectral information in the scene. The data
is thereby compressed already at the sensor level, but can be restored to the
full hyperspectral data cube by the jointly optimized reconstructor. This
framework is implemented with TensorFlow and makes use of its automatic
differentiation for the joint optimization of the layout of the micro-patterned
filter array as well as the reconstructor. We explore the achievable
compression ratio for different numbers of filter passbands, number of scanning
frames, and filter layouts using data collected by the Hyperscout instrument.
We show resulting instrument designs that take snapshot measurements without
losing significant information while reducing the data volume, acquisition
time, or detector space by a factor of 40 as compared to classic, dense
sampling. The joint optimization of a compressive hyperspectral imager design
and the accompanying reconstructor provides an avenue to substantially reduce
the data volume from hyperspectral imagers.Comment: 23 pages, 12 figures, published in Applied Optic
Multispectral snapshot demosaicing via non-convex matrix completion
Snapshot mosaic multispectral imagery acquires an undersampled data cube by
acquiring a single spectral measurement per spatial pixel. Sensors which
acquire frequencies, therefore, suffer from severe undersampling of
the full data cube. We show that the missing entries can be accurately imputed
using non-convex techniques from sparse approximation and matrix completion
initialised with traditional demosaicing algorithms. In particular, we observe
the peak signal-to-noise ratio can typically be improved by 2 to 5 dB over
current state-of-the-art methods when simulating a mosaic sensor
measuring both high and low altitude urban and rural scenes as well as
ground-based scenes.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 tabl
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Spectral Characterization of a Prototype SFA Camera for Joint Visible and NIR Acquisition
Multispectral acquisition improves machine vision since it permits capturing more information on object surface properties than color imaging. The concept of spectral filter arrays has been developed recently and allows multispectral single shot acquisition with a compact camera design. Due to filter manufacturing difficulties, there was, up to recently, no system available for a large span of spectrum, i.e., visible and Near Infra-Red acquisition. This article presents the achievement of a prototype of camera that captures seven visible and one near infra-red bands on the same sensor chip. A calibration is proposed to characterize the sensor, and images are captured. Data are provided as supplementary material for further analysis and simulations. This opens a new range of applications in security, robotics, automotive and medical fields