Purple Fringing Aberration Detection Based on Content-Adaptable Thresholds

Purple fringe aberration (PFA) patterns stem from specific defects in certain camera sensor grids, leading to the fraying of edges near high-contrast regions. Much of the literature deploys predefined, absolute, experimentally determined static thresholds for detecting purple fringes. Given the potential diversity in the spectral signature of the local light source, these fringes may not have a static distribution. It is therefore important to make the detection procedure content-adaptable and in tune with the environmental settings. In this paper, we propose a PFA detection procedure in the Y-Cb-Cr CHROMATIC space, by first using a global relativistic Y-channel-gradient threshold for detecting the high-contrast regions and then use the fact that PURPLE and GREEN are antipodes of each other to segregate PURPLE fringes reliably. Comparisons with the state-of-the-art detection approaches are presented. The advantage with the proposed approach rests with the fact that the threshold is content-adaptable and non-static and can therefore be used to pick up diverse fringe patterns (not necessarily confined to the seat of PURPLE).