From Sensor to Screen: Why ISP Tuning Matters — and Why Numbers Don't Tell the Whole Story
When an engineer powers a camera sensor on for the very first time, he or she would find that the image it produces out of the box as a very disappointing pilot episode. Colors seem off, alignment distorted, and likely filled with more noise than signal. Once its ISP has been calibrated under laboratory conditions against real world ground truths, the image starts to look more presentable. But it paves the way to some very important questions – who is this camera meant for? What is perceived...