A Study of Colour Rendering in the In-Camera Imaging Pipeline

dc.contributor.advisorBrown, Michael S.
dc.contributor.authorKaraimer, Hakki Can
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-11T12:35:22Z
dc.date.available2020-05-11T12:35:22Z
dc.date.copyright2019-08
dc.date.issued2020-05-11
dc.date.updated2020-05-11T12:35:22Z
dc.degree.disciplineComputer Science
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractConsumer cameras such as digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) and smartphone cameras have onboard hardware that applies a series of processing steps to transform the initial captured raw sensor image to the final output image that is provided to the user. These processing steps collectively make up the in-camera image processing pipeline. This dissertation aims to study the processing steps related to colour rendering which can be categorized into two stages. The first stage is to convert an image's sensor-specific raw colour space to a device-independent perceptual colour space. The second stage is to further process the image into a display-referred colour space and includes photo-finishing routines to make the image appear visually pleasing to a human. This dissertation makes four contributions towards the study of camera colour rendering. The first contribution is the development of a software-based research platform that closely emulates the in-camera image processing pipeline hardware. This platform allows the examination of the various image states of the captured image as it is processed from the sensor response to the final display output. Our second contribution is to demonstrate the advantage of having access to intermediate image states within the in-camera pipeline that provide more accurate colourimetric consistency among multiple cameras. Our third contribution is to analyze the current colourimetric method used by consumer cameras and to propose a modification that is able to improve its colour accuracy. Our fourth contribution is to describe how to customize a camera imaging pipeline using machine vision cameras to produce high-quality perceptual images for dermatological applications. The dissertation concludes with a summary and future directions.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/37343
dc.languageen
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dc.subject.keywordsCamera processing pipeline
dc.subject.keywordsComputational photography
dc.subject.keywordsColour processing
dc.titleA Study of Colour Rendering in the In-Camera Imaging Pipeline
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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