Image processing apparatus
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1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
- an image capture sensor;
a set of infra-red (IR) sources surrounding the image capture sensor; and
a processor operatively coupled to said IR sources and said image capture sensor and configured to acquire from the sensor a succession of images, each image illuminated with a different combination of the IR sources such that each in a plurality of the images is captured with illumination from a different direction, the processor being further arranged to combine component images corresponding to the succession of images by selecting a median value for corresponding pixel locations of said component images as a pixel value for the combined image, where the processor arranged to perform 3D temporal median filtering in a cascaded fashion to obtain g sets of cascaded images which are passed through a median filter with g intermediate fused images generated and combined into said combined image.
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus comprises a set of infra-red (IR) sources surrounding an image capture sensor and a processor operatively coupled to said IR sources and said image capture sensor. The processor being arranged to acquire from the sensor a succession of images, each illuminated with a different combination of the IR sources. The processor is further arranged to combine component images corresponding to the succession of images by selecting a median value for corresponding pixel locations of the component images as a pixel value for the combined image.
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1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
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an image capture sensor; a set of infra-red (IR) sources surrounding the image capture sensor; and a processor operatively coupled to said IR sources and said image capture sensor and configured to acquire from the sensor a succession of images, each image illuminated with a different combination of the IR sources such that each in a plurality of the images is captured with illumination from a different direction, the processor being further arranged to combine component images corresponding to the succession of images by selecting a median value for corresponding pixel locations of said component images as a pixel value for the combined image, where the processor arranged to perform 3D temporal median filtering in a cascaded fashion to obtain g sets of cascaded images which are passed through a median filter with g intermediate fused images generated and combined into said combined image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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