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by jwise0 4413 days ago
Would be interesting to hear what their demosaic algorithms look like. Being gflops-limited means that a lot of the image signal processing algorithms need to be dramatically simplified in some regards, but having large memory buffers that they can work in gives them a wide berth to implement more complex algorithms in other ways.

The libraw / dcraw-based demosaic algorithms are, I am told, very good; it'd be interesting to compare the image quality that they get (if they reinvented the wheel) vs. libraw, vs. the camera's on-board ISP.

Either way, having an in-browser RAW experimentation platform could be a very interesting tool; even if for nothing else, using it for education could be very neat. Good work!

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Before start, we investigated and learned tons of theory and alot of libs. Rawspeed is my personal best and we compared our results with it. Now in raw.pics.io we implement simple bicubic interpolation algorithm which optimal in speed/quality. Sure, we think about AHD, gradient and other algos, but we should deal with performance first.