Abstract
An ISP is an entity that performs various image-processing algorithms on a raw image from an image sensor. A number of functions are incorporated in an ISP, and they are combined together similarly but differently among ISP implementers. ISP functions are divided into pixel-based and frame-based ones, and are dedicated to one of three color domains in Bayer, RGB, or YCbCr. Although it is an essential component for a camera system, surprisingly, its architecture has not been analyzed in the context of standards. The purpose of this chapter is to remove ambiguity when analyzing an ISP architecture or designing a new ISP architecture. At the end of this chapter, a baseline ISP pipeline is presented, which is tentatively built to conform to the existing standards.
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This work is supported by the Center for Integrated Smart Sensors funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning as the Global Frontier Project.
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Park, H.S. (2016). Architectural Analysis of a Baseline ISP Pipeline. In: Kyung, CM. (eds) Theory and Applications of Smart Cameras. KAIST Research Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9987-4_2
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