In plain words: Phone sensors that combine pixels to gather more light use a tricky color-filter pattern, so a deep network fills in missing colors and removes noise in one pass, guided by losses that reward natural detail. It beat earlier one-pass cleanup methods on quality and looks.
Abstract · Beyond Joint Demosaicking and Denoising: An Image Processing Pipeline for a Pixel-bin Image Sensor
Pixel binning is considered one of the most prominent solutions to tackle the hardware limitation of smartphone cameras. Despite numerous advantages, such an image sensor has to appropriate an artefact-prone non-Bayer colour filter array (CFA) to enable the binning capability. Contrarily, performing essential image signal processing (ISP) tasks like demosaicking and denoising, explicitly with such CFA patterns, makes the reconstruction process notably complicated. In this paper, we tackle the challenges of joint demosaicing and denoising (JDD) on such an image sensor by introducing a novel learning-based method. The proposed method leverages the depth and spatial attention in a deep network. The proposed network is guided by a multi-term objective function, including two novel perceptual losses to produce visually plausible images. On top of that, we stretch the proposed image processing pipeline to comprehensively reconstruct and enhance the images captured with a smartphone camera, which uses pixel binning techniques. The experimental results illustrate that the proposed method can outperform the existing methods by a noticeable margin in qualitative and quantitative comparisons. Code available: https://github.com/sharif-apu/BJDD_CVPR21.
SMA Sharif, Rizwan Ali Naqvi, Mithun Biswas
arXiv:2104.09398 · cs.CV · submitted Apr 19, 2021
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