Learning a Non-Locally Regularized Convolutional Sparse Representation for Joint Chromatic and Polarimetric Demosaicking.

Abstract

Division of focal plane color polarization camera becomes the mainstream in polarimetric imaging for it directly captures color polarization mosaic image by one snapshot, so image demosaicking is an essential task. Current color polarization demosaicking (CPDM) methods are prone to unsatisfied results since it's difficult to recover missed 15 or 14 pixels out of 16 pixels in color polarization mosaic images. To address this problem, a non-locally regularized convolutional sparse regularization model, which is advantaged in denoising and edge maintaining, is proposed to recall more information for CPDM task, and the CPDM task is transformed into an energy function to be solved by ADMM optimization. Finally, the optimal model generates informative and clear results. The experimental results, including reconstructed synthetic and real-world scenes, demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms the current state-of-the-art methods in terms of quantitative measurements and visual quality. The source code is available at https://github.com/roydon-luo/NLCSR-CPDM.