DeepDemosaicking: Adaptive Image Demosaicking via Multiple Deep Fully Convolutional Networks

Convolutional neural networks are currently the state-of-the-art solution for a wide range of image processing tasks. Their deep architecture extracts low- and high-level features from images, thus improving the model’s performance. In this paper, we propose a method for image demosaicking based on deep convolutional neural networks. Demosaicking is the task of reproducing full color images from incomplete images formed from overlaid color filter arrays on image sensors found in digital cameras. Instead of producing the output image directly, the proposed method divides the demosaicking task into an initial demosaicking step and a refinement step. The initial step produces a rough demosaicked image containing unwanted color artifacts. The refinement step then reduces these color artifacts using deep residual estimation and multi-model fusion producing a higher quality image. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms several existing and state-of-the-art methods in terms of both the subjective and objective evaluations.