I'm a software engineer working on internal business tools. My current side project is evaluating academically published demosaic algorithms for camera sensors

I'm a software engineer working on internal business tools. My current side project is evaluating academically published demosaic algorithms for camera sensors by implementing them with Halide (halide-lang.org) and running them against my personal photos. I'm mainly aiming to learn about how camera sensors actually work and what the image processing pipeline looks like between a bunch of RGGB pixels and a JPEG. I'm hoping to build my own pipeline but I may also contribute my implementations to RawTherapee, if the papers' authors permit. Learning Halide is also fun. It's amazing how fast a computer runs when you use optimised code.