Processing image from KAI-8050SC truesense image sensor

[Maurice Proulx]

I am in the process of adding to my equipment a color camera and I am interested by a camera with a KAI-8050SC image sensor. Since it is using the Truesense Sparse Color filter pattern, will I be able to process those image using PI otherwise I will look for another type of CCD.

I did a search on the forum archive but I could not find any information or any processing exemple using this CCD

Any comment on my choice would be appreciate

Regards

Maurice

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Maurice,

The Truesense Sparse CFA is not directly supported by our preprocessing tools and scripts. These frames can be calibrated without problems (bias/dark subtracted and flat fielded), but our tools don't know how to interpolate them to produce RGB images (the equivalent to a deBayering process). This is a serious problem for image registration, which in turn is a game stopper to use these frames without a lot of manual work.

[pfile]

in the worst case couldn't you write some pixelmath expressions to extract the R/G/B/L from the 'bayer' pattern and use ImageContainer to write the resultant mono files to disk?

rob