A system to reduce the effect of CCDs saturation

Author

Regincós-Isern, Jordi ; Batlle, Joan

Author_Institution

Dept. d´´Inf. i Matematica Aplicada, Girona Univ., Spain

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

16-19 Sep 1996

Firstpage

1001

Abstract

Colour image segmentation based on the hue component presents some problems due to the physical process of image formation. One of that problems is colour clipping, which appear when at least one of the sensor components is saturated. We have designed a system, that works for a trained set of colours, to recover the chromatic information of those pixels on which colour has been clipped. The chromatic correction method is based on the fact that hue and saturation are invariant to the uniform scaling of the three RGB components. The proposed method has been validated by means of a specific colour image processing board that has allowed its execution in real time. We show experimental results of the application of our method

Keywords

CCD image sensors; image colour analysis; image segmentation; CCD saturation effect reduction; RGB components; algorithm; chromatic correction method; chromatic information recovery; colour clipping; colour image processing board; colour image segmentation; experimental results; hue component; image formation; pixels; real time execution; sensor components; uniform scaling; Application software; Cameras; Charge coupled devices; Color; Computer vision; Equations; Image processing; Image segmentation; Image sensors; Response surface methodology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 1996. Proceedings., International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lausanne

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3259-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.1996.559670

Filename

559670