Method and system for noise removal for a sparsely sampled image with extended dynamic range

摘要

A method of removing noise from a sparsely sampled extended dynamic range image produced by a sparsely sampled extended dynamic range image sensing device having fast photosites with a predetermined response to a light exposure for producing fast pixel values and slow photosites with a slower response to the same light exposure for producing slow pixel values, includes the steps of: providing a sparsely sampled extended dynamic range digital image having fast and slow pixel values; using a noise filter method to remove noise from the sparsely sampled extended dynamic range digital image by using only slow pixel values to generate slow noise reduced pixel values and using only fast pixel values to generate fast noise reduced pixel values; and combining the slow noise reduced pixel values and the fast noise reduced pixel values to generate a noise reduced sparsely sampled digital image. IMAGE