Fast and Robust High Dynamic Range Image Generation with Camera and Object Movement

High dynamic range (HDR) images play an important role in todays computer graphics: Typical applications are the improved display of a photograph with a tone mapper and the relighting of a virtual object in a natural environment using an HDR environment map. Generating an HDR image usually requires a sequence of photographs with different exposure times which are combined to a single image. In practice two problems occur when taking an image sequence: The camera is moving or objects are moving during the sequence. This results in a blurry HDR image due to the camera movement and moving objects appear multiple times as ghost images in the combined image. In this paper, we present a simple and fast algorithm for a robust HDR generation that removes these artifacts without prior knowledge of the camera response function.