Taking Full Advantage of RGB Sensor’s Colorimetric Characteristics in Multi-Spectral Imaging

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Department of Color Imaging and Color Image Processing‏,‏ Institute for Color Science and Technology, Tehran‎‏,‏ Iran‏.‏

Abstract

Spectral images are the most valuable data than can be achieved using 2D sensors. Spectral estimation using data with a few channel cameras has been the subject of many studies. It is common to use color filters in front of the lens for increasing dimensionality of data. However, spectral estimations are prone to suffer from colorimetric errors. To address this problem it was shown that this problem is a special case of error-free spectral estimation problem. Considering the fact that most of RGB cameras tend to be colorimetric, using geometrical modeling of the problem, it was shown that adding a shoot with bare lens to the sensor’s data can solve the problem. The notion has been tested in different scenarios and the efficiency of the proposed method has been proved in the scenarios. Results showed that if the camera is acceptably colorimetric, the proposed method can even leads to error-free colorimetric performance.

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Progress in Color, Colorants and Coatings
Volume 13, Issue 2
May 2020
Pages 121-130

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