Real-time image restoration for digital multifocusing in a multiple color-filter aperture camera

A multiple color-filter aperture (MCA) can provide a single camera with depth information and multifocusing. However, the original version of the MCA system exhibits inherent limitations such as manual, empirical tuning parameters for the color channel registration and fusion (CRF) process. Furthermore, a CRF output image still contains undesired out-of-focus blur because of the finite-sized apertures and the lateral displacement of each color-filter aperture, which results in low exposure, color mixing, deviation of color convergence, and divergence of light rays. For overcoming these problems, we present a real-time image processing solution for digital multifocusing in a MCA system. (c) 2010 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. [DOI: 10.1117/1.3393885]