High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging is one of the technologies that are changing photo, TV, and film industries. The popularity and full public adoption of HDR content is however hindered by the lack of standards in evaluation of quality, file formats, and compression, as well as large legacy base of Low Dynamic Range (LDR) displays that are unable to render HDR. Many tone-mapping operators, aimin...

An algorithm for blending multiple-exposure images of a scene into an image with maximum information content is introduced. The algorithm partitions the image domain into subimages and for each subimage selects the image that contains the most information about the subimage. The selected images are then blended together using monotonically decreasing blending functions that are centered at the ...

The real world consists of many scenes which contain a high dynamic range. While modern cameras are capable of capturing the dynamic range of these scenes, displays still only show a low dynamic range. Many tone map operators exist but very few consider the use of head-mounted displays. We create a dynamic tone map operator for use on panorama high dynamic range images by considering a user’s h...

The main objective of this paper is to verify test methodologies for the assessment of high dynamic range (HDR) video. To achieve this, a next generation HDR monitor by Dolby Laboratories was used to display professionally produced HDR content. Two complementary approaches for subjective assessment of HDR video were then designed and carried out at the European Broadcast Union and Ecole Polytec...

The real world encompasses a high range of luminances. In order to capture and represent this range correctly, High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging techniques are introduced. Some of these techniques are based on constructing an HDR image from several Low Dynamic Range (LDR) images with different exposures. In the capture and reconstruction phases, the HDR reproduction techniques must resolve the d...

The ability of High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging to capture the full range of lighting in a scene has prompted an increase in its use for Cultural Heritage (CH) applications. Photogrammetric techniques allow the semi-automatic production of three-dimensional (3D) models from a sequence of images. Current photogrammetric methods are not always effective in reconstructing images under harsh lighti...

In this paper we present a CMOS image sensor design with a high dynamic range. This feature is achieved by a two-frame scheme, in which an image is captured twice with different sensitivity levels. One of them focuses on the low light intensity part of the image, while the other focuses on the high light intensity part. After proper composition, these two frames are then combined as a single im...

An important consideration for any digital 03 image is how to store it. This is especially true for high dynamic range (HDR) images, which record a much wider gamut than standard 24-bit RGB, and therefore require an efficient encoding to avoid taking up an excess of disk space and network bandwidth. Fortunately, several HDR file encodings and formats have already been developed by the graphics ...

We propose a novel 3D wavelet based tone mapping framework for high dynamic range videos. Still image tone mapping methods can be applied to videos in a frame by frame fashion, but they often exhibit haloing artifacts and do not guarantee temporal coherence, resulting in flickering. Directly extending wavelet analysis/synthesis to time solves the flickering problem but leads to ghosting. Our me...

In last years, many modulus sets in the Residue Number System (RNS) for increasing Dynamic Range (DR) and parallelism are presented. Hence, for reach these purposes a new 5-Moduli Set for even n, and its efficient reverse converter design are introduced in this paper. This modulus set contains pair-wise relatively prime, and it offers the maximum feasible DR. New CRT-I and MRC are used to obtai...