Simulation of a Digital Camera Pipeline

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to present an analysis of an image capture system and of the color process of an input image as it passes through the digital camera pipeline. The analysis covers only the part related to the optical sensor a Cook Tyler triplet, the optical part of the CCD (charge coupled devices) image sensor and color processing. We consider the image acquisition to be a LSI (linear shift invariant system) and axial, and the light propagation is orthogonal to system. The simulation results address the image acquisition and the processing part of a digital camera pipeline. The analysis can be useful to assist engineers in image quality evaluation and imaging system design.