Color transient improvement for signals with a bandlimited chrominance component

Joonyoung Chang; Gun Shik Shin; Jong Hyun Park; Moon Gi Kang

doi:10.1117/1.2709633

1 February 2007 Color transient improvement for signals with a bandlimited chrominance component

Joonyoung Chang, Gun Shik Shin, Jong Hyun Park, Moon Gi Kang

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 46, Issue 2, 027002 (February 2007). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2709633

Abstract

In color television broadcasting standards, such as National Television System Committee (NTSC) and phase alteration line (PAL), the bandwidth of the chrominance signals are even narrower than those of the luminance signals. Also in digital video standards, the chrominance signals are usually low-pass filtered and subsampled to reduce the amount of data. Because of these reasons, the chrominance signals have poor transition characteristics and the slow transition causes blurred color edges. A color transient improvement algorithm is proposed by exploiting the high-frequency information of the luminance signal. The high-frequency component extracted from the luminance signal is modified by adaptive gains and added to the low-resolution chrominance signals in the proposed algorithm. The gain is estimated to minimize the l2 norm of the error between the original and the estimated pixel values in a local window. The proposed algorithm naturally improves the transient of the chrominance signal as much as that of the luminance signal without overshoots and undershoots. The experimental results show that the proposed method produces steep and natural color edge transition and reconstructs narrow line edges that are not restored by the conventional algorithms.

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Joonyoung Chang, Gun Shik Shin, Jong Hyun Park, and Moon Gi Kang "Color transient improvement for signals with a bandlimited chrominance component," Optical Engineering 46(2), 027002 (1 February 2007). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2709633

Published: 1 February 2007

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