title: Linear demosaicing inspired by the human visual system.
abstract: There is an analogy between single-chip color cameras and the human visual system in that these two systems acquire only one limited wavelength sensitivity band per spatial location. We have exploited this analogy, defining a model that characterizes a one-color per spatial position image as a coding into luminance and chrominance of the corresponding three colors per spatial position image. Luminance is defined with full spatial resolution while chrominance contains subsampled opponent colors. Moreover, luminance and chrominance follow a particular arrangement in the Fourier domain, allowing for demosaicing by spatial frequency filtering. This model shows that visual artifacts after demosaicing are due to aliasing between luminance and chrominance and could be solved using a preprocessing filter. This approach also gives new insights for the representation of single-color per spatial location images and enables formal and controllable procedures to design demosaicing algorithms that perform well compared to concurrent approaches, as demonstrated by experiments.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Psychology and NeuroCognition, University Pierre-Mendes France, 38040 Grenoble, France. david.alleysson@upmf-grenoble.fr
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Alleysson
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Süsstrunk
authors.forename: Jeanny
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hérault
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D032701:Biomimetics / Q000379:methods*; D003116:Color; D003124:Colorimetry / Q000379:methods*; D003196:Computer Graphics; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology