Appearance in High Dynamic Range images is controlled by intraocular glare and physiological spatial contrast. Increasing the number of high luminance pixels in a display increases glare and reduces the dynamic range of luminances on the retina. Simultaneous contrast makes areas with higher glare related luminances look darker. Previous experiments measured the range needed for the appearance b...

Recent work in the field of robotics optimal control has focused on designing and employing variable impedance actuators. Such actuators provide a high dynamic range and fast response. Until now, impedance modulation has been restricted to physical stiffness alone, while its other components, such as damping, are set to a fixed value. In this work the influence of introducing variable damping i...

Color imaging systems are continuously improving, and have now improved to the point of capturing high dynamic range scenes. Unfortunately most commercially available color display devices, such as CRTs and LCDs, are limited in their dynamic range. It is necessary to tone-map, or render, the high dynamic range images in order to display them onto a lower dynamic range device. This paper describ...

Multi-exposure fusion(MEF) are techniques to obtain the high dynamic range. One of MEF methods, guided filtering-based fusion(GFF) has good performance for preserving details of original images. However, GFF method considers only details, which causes a problem of missing color information. To solve this problem, we proposed a saliency map-based approach for considering both detail and color in...

Video contents now represent the biggest share of Internet traffic in terms of volume. Nextflix is responsible for 71% of the bandwidth consumed at peak hours in the US, a two-fold increase as compared to 2011, according to the last quarterly report of Sandvine [14]. On average, Netflix consumed 35,2%, followed by YouTube (17,5%) and Amazon Video (4,3%). This heavy trend points toward the need ...

Contrast in image processing is typically scaled using a power function (gamma) where its exponent specifies the amount of the physical contrast change. While the exponent is normally constant for the whole image, we observe that such scaling leads to perceptual nonuniformity in the context of high dynamic range (HDR) images. This effect is mostly due to lower contrast sensitivity of the human ...

This paper presents a global approach for constructing high dynamic range mosaic from multiple images with large exposure differences. By relating image intensities to scene radiances with a convenient distortion model, we robustly estimated registration parameters for the high dynamic range global mosaic (HDRGM), simultaneously estimating scene radiances and distortion parameters in a single f...

To utilize the full potential of new high dynamic range (HDR) displays, a system for the enhancement of bright luminous objects in video sequences is proposed. The system classifies clipped (saturated) regions as lights, reflections or diffuse surfaces using a semi-automatic classifier and then enhances each class of objects with respect to its relative brightness. The enhancement algorithm can...

The performance of video tone-mapping operators is investigated in a rating experiment using two criteria: overall quality and fidelity to real-world experience. The study includes a tone-curve used in commercial cameras, rarely considered in tone-mapping evaluation studies. The quality is measured for a range of parameter settings, revealing the importance of parameter fine-tuning and often un...