Image analysis – Image enhancement or restoration
Reexamination Certificate
2005-12-12
2008-08-12
Tung, Kee M. (Department: 2628)
Image analysis
Image enhancement or restoration
C382S300000, C382S263000, C345S606000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07412107
ABSTRACT:
An integrated method for both super-resolution and multi-frame demosaicing includes an image fusion followed by simultaneous deblurring and interpolation. For the case of color super-resolution, the first step involves application of recursive image fusion separately on the three different color layers. The second step is based on minimizing a maximum a posteriori (MAP) cost function. In one embodiment, the MAP cost function is composed of several terms: a data fidelity penalty term that penalizes dissimilarity between the raw data and the super-resolved estimate, a luminance penalty term that favors sharp edges in the luminance component of the image, a chrominance penalty term that favors low spatial frequency changes in the chrominance component of the image, and an orientation penalty term that favors similar edge orientations across the color channels. The method is also applicable to color super-resolution (without demosaicing), where the low-quality input images are already demosaiced. In addition, for translational motion, the method may be used in a very fast image fusion algorithm to facilitate the implementation of dynamic, multi-input/multi-output color super-resolution/demosaicing.
REFERENCES:
patent: 6452637 (2002-09-01), Rudin et al.
patent: 2002/0114532 (2002-08-01), Ratner et al.
Elad Michael
Farsiu Sina
Milanfar Peyman
Lumen Patent Firm, Inc.
The Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz
Tung Kee M.
Xu Kevin K
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