Rank-based camera spectral sensitivity estimation

Finlayson, Graham, Mohammadzadeh Darrodi, Maryam and Mackiewicz, Michal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8777-8880 (2016) Rank-based camera spectral sensitivity estimation. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 33 (4). pp. 589-599. ISSN 1084-7529

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Abstract

In order to accurately predict a digital camera response to spectral stimuli, the spectral sensitivity functions of its sensor need to be known. These functions can be determined by direct measurement in the lab—a difficult and lengthy procedure—or through simple statistical inference. Statistical inference methods are based on the observation that when a camera responds linearly to spectral stimuli, the device spectral sensitivities are linearly related to the camera rgb response values, and so can be found through regression. However, for rendered images, such as the JPEG images taken by a mobile phone, this assumption of linearity is violated. Even small departures from linearity can negatively impact the accuracy of the recovered spectral sensitivities, when a regression method is used. In our work, we develop a novel camera spectral sensitivity estimation technique that can recover the linear device spectral sensitivities from linear images and the effective linear sensitivities from rendered images. According to our method, the rank order of a pair of responses imposes a constraint on the shape of the underlying spectral sensitivity curve (of the sensor). Technically, each rank-pair splits the space where the underlying sensor might lie in two parts (a feasible region and an infeasible region). By intersecting the feasible regions from all the ranked-pairs, we can find a feasible region of sensor space. Experiments demonstrate that using rank orders delivers equal estimation to the prior art. However, the Rank-based method delivers a step-change in estimation performance when the data is not linear and, for the first time, allows for the estimation of the effective sensitivities of devices that may not even have “raw mode.” Experiments validate our method.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Interactive Graphics and Audio Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Colour and Imaging Lab
Related URLs:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1362/JOSAA.33.00058...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	23 Mar 2016 14:00
Last Modified:	17 Sep 2023 06:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/58008
DOI:	10.1364/JOSAA.33.000589

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