Automatically Designing An Image Processing Pipeline For A Five-Band Camera Prototype Using The Local, Linear, Learned (L-3) Method

The development of an image processing pipeline for each new camera design can be time-consuming. To speed camera development, we developed a method named L-3 (Local, Linear, Learned) that automatically creates an image processing pipeline for any design. In this paper, we describe how we used the L-3 method to design and implement an image processing pipeline for a prototype camera with five color channels. The process includes calibrating and simulating the prototype, learning local linear transforms and accelerating the pipeline using graphics processing units (GPUs).