Detection and correction of purple fringing using color desaturation in the xy chromaticity diagram and the gradient information

This paper proposes a method to detect and correct purple fringing, which is one of color artifacts due to characteristics of charge coupled device sensors in a digital camera. The proposed method consists of two steps: detection and correction of purple fringing. In the first step, we detect the purple fringed regions that satisfy specific properties: image regions with large gradient magnitudes and with the chromaticity values within the purple color range set in the CIE xy chromaticity diagram. In the second step, color of the purple fringed regions is corrected in the CIE xy chromaticity diagram by color desaturation of the detected pixels. The proposed method is able to detect purple fringe artifacts more precisely and correct them more naturally than existing methods. It can be used as a post processing in a digital camera.