Single-Sensor
Imaging
Methods and Applications
for Digital Cameras
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IMAGE PROCESSING SERIES
Series Editor: Phillip A. Laplante, Pennsylvania State University
Published Titles
Adaptive Image Processing: A Computational Intelligence Perspective
Stuart William Perry, Hau-San Wong, and Ling Guan
Color Image Processing: Methods and Applications
Rastislav Lukac and Konstantinos N. Plataniotis
Image Acquisition and Processing with LabVIEW™
Christopher G. Relf
Image and Video Compression for Multimedia Engineering
Second Edition
Yun Q. Shi and Huiyang Sun
Multimedia Image and Video Processing
Ling Guan, S.Y. Kung, and Jan Larsen
Shape Analysis and Classification: Theory and Practice
Luciano da Fontoura Costa and Roberto Marcondes Cesar Jr.
Single-Sensor Imaging: Methods and Applications for Digital Cameras
Rastislav Lukac
Software Engineering for Image Processing Systems
Phillip A. Laplante
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Single-Sensor
Imaging
Methods and Applications
for Digital Cameras
Edited by
Rastislav Lukac
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1. Digital cameras. 2. Image processing--Digital techniques. 3. Image converters. I. Lukac, Rastislav.
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Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue.
Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way
they really are or people might think we’re stupid.
—Jules Feiffer, cartoonist and satirist
Dedication
To my wife Ivana