A color-edge contrast preserver includes a demosaicing module, a color-correcting module, a converter module and a chromatic-denoising module. The demosaicing module may demosaic a red-white-blue (RWB) pixel image of the image. The color-correcting module may color correct the demosaiced RWB pixel image and may produce a red-green-blue (RGB) pixel image from the color-corrected demosaiced RWB pixel image. The converter module to convert the RGB pixel image to a hue-saturation-value (HSV) pixel image and to generate a similarity kernel ΔY. The chromatic-denoising module may denoise a red pixel image and a blue pixel image of the RWB pixel image using the similarity kernel ΔY.