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The effect of the color filter array layout choice on state-of-the-art demosaicing
Interpolation from a Color Filter Array (CFA) is the most common method for obtaining full color image data. Its success relies on the smart combination of a CFA and a demosaicing algorithm. Demosaicing on the one hand has been extensively studied. Algorithmic development in the past 20 years ranges from simple linear interpolation to modern neural-network-based (NN) approaches that encode the prior knowledge of millions of training images to fill in missing data in an inconspicious way. CFA design, on the other hand, is less well studied, although still recognized to strongly impact demosaicing performance. This is because demosaicing algorithms are typically limited to one particular CFA pattern, impeding straightforward CFA comparison. This is starting to change with newer classes of demosaicing that may be considered generic or CFA-agnostic. In this study, by comparing performance of two state-of-the-art generic algorithms, we evaluate the potential of modern CFA-demosaicing. We test the hypothesis that, with the increasing power of NN-based demosaicing, the influence of optimal CFA design on system performance decreases. This hypothesis is supported with the experimental results. Such a finding would herald the possibility of relaxing CFA requirements, providing more freedom in the CFA design choice and producing high-quality cameras
Unsupervised Sparse Dirichlet-Net for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution
In many computer vision applications, obtaining images of high resolution in
both the spatial and spectral domains are equally important. However, due to
hardware limitations, one can only expect to acquire images of high resolution
in either the spatial or spectral domains. This paper focuses on hyperspectral
image super-resolution (HSI-SR), where a hyperspectral image (HSI) with low
spatial resolution (LR) but high spectral resolution is fused with a
multispectral image (MSI) with high spatial resolution (HR) but low spectral
resolution to obtain HR HSI. Existing deep learning-based solutions are all
supervised that would need a large training set and the availability of HR HSI,
which is unrealistic. Here, we make the first attempt to solving the HSI-SR
problem using an unsupervised encoder-decoder architecture that carries the
following uniquenesses. First, it is composed of two encoder-decoder networks,
coupled through a shared decoder, in order to preserve the rich spectral
information from the HSI network. Second, the network encourages the
representations from both modalities to follow a sparse Dirichlet distribution
which naturally incorporates the two physical constraints of HSI and MSI.
Third, the angular difference between representations are minimized in order to
reduce the spectral distortion. We refer to the proposed architecture as
unsupervised Sparse Dirichlet-Net, or uSDN. Extensive experimental results
demonstrate the superior performance of uSDN as compared to the
state-of-the-art.Comment: Accepted by The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR 2018, Spotlight
Recent Advances in Image Restoration with Applications to Real World Problems
In the past few decades, imaging hardware has improved tremendously in terms of resolution, making widespread usage of images in many diverse applications on Earth and planetary missions. However, practical issues associated with image acquisition are still affecting image quality. Some of these issues such as blurring, measurement noise, mosaicing artifacts, low spatial or spectral resolution, etc. can seriously affect the accuracy of the aforementioned applications. This book intends to provide the reader with a glimpse of the latest developments and recent advances in image restoration, which includes image super-resolution, image fusion to enhance spatial, spectral resolution, and temporal resolutions, and the generation of synthetic images using deep learning techniques. Some practical applications are also included
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