Although HDR content processing, coding and quality assessment have been largely addressed in the last few years, little to no work has been concentrating on how to assess quality in HDR for 360◦ or omnidirectional content. This paper is an attempt to answer to various questions in this direction. As a minimum, a new data set for 360◦ HDR content is proposed and a new methodology is designed to...

Seven tone mapping methods currently available to display high dynamic range images were submitted to perceptual evaluation in order to nd the attributes most predictive of the success of a robust all-around tone mapping algorithm. The two most salient Stimulus Space dimensions underlying the perception of a set of images produced by six of the tone mappings were revealed using INdividual Di er...

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...

Tone mapping operators (TMOs) convert high dynamic range (HDR) images to low dynamic range (LDR) images and are important because of the limitations of many standard display devices. Even though the quality of the resulting LDR image mostly depends on TMO parameter values, in this paper it is shown that it can be further improved by using alternative definitions of the luminance channel, which ...

In this paper we present a novel method to map high dynamic range scenes to low dynamic range images for visualization. We formulate the problem as a quantization process and employ an adaptive learning strategy to ensure that the low dynamic range displays not only faithfully reproduce the original scenes but also are visually pleasing. This is achieved by the use of a competitive learning neu...

Cationic-induced two-photon photopolymerization is demonstrated at 710 nm, using an isopropylthioxanthone / diarylidonium salt initiating system for the cationic polymerization of an epoxide. The polymerization threshold J2th is found to be approximately 1 GW/cm, with a dynamic range of > 100, i.e. the material can be fully polymerized at intensities > 100 times the threshold level without dama...

In this paper, we present a comprehensive tone reproduction curve based operator for the fast visualization of high dynamic range images. Image reproduction is a highly subjective process and different users will have very different preferences even for the same image. Therefore, a really useful tone-mapping tool for high dynamic range images should be fast and interactive, with which users can...

Inspired by the ModelFest and ColorFest data sets, a contrast sensitivity function was measured for a wide range of adapting luminance levels. The measurements were motivated by the need to collect visual performance data for natural viewing of static images at a broad range of luminance levels, such as can be found in the case of high dynamic range displays. The detection of sine-gratings with...

It is commonly accepted1 that the dynamic range (DR) of an image, i.e. the image color definition, is equal to the image maximum signal-to-noise ratio (max SNR). We also know that the maximum amount of image information is given by the product of resolution (cross-image definition) and color definition. Therefore, increasing the DR of images is by no mean less important than increasing their re...