I present a revised approach to flash-exposure high dynamic range (HDR) imaging and demonstrate two applications of this image representation. The first application enables the creation of realistic ‘virtual photographs’ for arbitrary flash-exposure settings, based on a single flash-exposure HDR image. The second application is a novel tone mapping operator for flash-exposure HDR images based o...

We have implemented two analog VLSI computational sensors for sensing and encoding high dynamic range images by exploiting temporal dimension of photoreception. The first sensor is a multi-integration time photoreceptor that automatically adapts to use different integration periods depending on light intensity. It exhibits a dynamic range 128 times larger than that of a single integration perio...

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging has become a powerful tool in computer graphics, and is being applied to scenarios like simulation of different film responses, motion blur, and image-based illumination. The HDR images for these applications are typically generated by combining the information from multiple photographs taken at different exposure settings. Unfortunately, the color calibration o...

Capturing natural scenes with high dynamic range content using conventional RGB cameras generally results in saturated and underexposed and therefore compromising image areas. Furthermore the image lacks color accuracy due to a systematic color error of the RGB color filters. The problem of the limited dynamic range of the camera has been addressed by high dynamic range imaging (HDRI): Several ...

This paper introduces a novel area of research to the Image Forensic field; identifying High Dynamic Range (HDR) digital images. We create a test set of images that are a combination of HDR and standard images of similar scenes. We also propose a scheme to isolate fingerprints of the HDR-induced haloing artifact at “strong” edge positions, and present experimental results in extracting suitable...

In this paper we present a new practical camera characterization technique to improve color accuracy in high dynamic range (HDR) imaging. Camera characterization refers to the process of mapping device-dependent signals, such as digital camera RAW images, into a well-defined color space. This is a well-understood process for low dynamic range (LDR) imaging and is part of most digital cameras — ...

The high dynamic range of illumination may cause serious distortions and problems in the view and further processing of digital images. In this paper a new fuzzy based tone reproduction pre-processing algorithm is introduced which may help in developing the hardly or non viewable features and content of the images making easier the further processing.

Experiments at storage ring light sources as well as at next-generation light sources increasingly require detectors capable of high dynamic range operation, combining low-noise detection of single photons with large pixel well depth. XFEL sources in particular provide pulse intensities sufficiently high that a purely photon-counting approach is impractical. The High Dynamic Range Pixel Array D...

The presentation discusses the requirements on the characteristics of antenna and RFsubsystem of a FMCW Imaging Radar with respect to the dynamic range and presents the design of an advanced demonstrator. The discussion is based on experience with the HiVision-Radar system /1/ which observes the ground from an elevated position (e.g. airborne platform, see also /2/) and employs a frequency scan...

Here, we report results from psychophysical experiments aimed to assess the performance of the Samsung OLED display as contrasted to that of a typical LCD display in the context of high-dynamic range (HDR) image rendering. Our test scenes depict ”blobbie” objects embedded in an environment that contains regions with strong shadows. In the assessments described here we examined 8 variations of t...