Hardware Architecture for Adaptive Edge-Directed Interpolation Algorithm

Demosaicing refers to the reconstruction of full color image by the incomplete color samples produced by the single-chip image sensor. So there is a need of interpolation to obtain the missing color pixels. In this work a hardware architecture has been proposed for the adaptive edge-directed interpolation algorithm which uses an edge estimator for the interpolation. The proposed hardware architecture is implemented in Verilog HDL (Hardware Description Language) and synthesized using Cadence Genus compiler with 90nm technology in typical mode. For the proposed architecture, the power dissipation is found to be 26 mW, delay is 7.2 ns and requires 2.3 mm2 area. The demosaiced images obtained using the proposed architecture is observed to have better image quality in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity while comparing with existing architectures.