Demosaicing images in low lighting environments
Chiman Kwan, Jude Larkin, Bence Budavari · 2020
It is commonly believed that having more white pixels in a color filter array (CFA) will help the demosaicing performance for images collected in low lighting conditions. We present a comparative study to evaluate the performance of demosaicing for images collected in realistic low lighting conditions using two CFAs: the standard Bayer pattern (aka CFA 1.0) and the Kodak CFA 2.0 (RGBW pattern with 50% white pixels). Using a data set containing 10 images collected in low lighting conditions, we observe that having more white pixels does help the demosaicing performance. However, some cautions are needed in quantifying the performance.