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High Dynamic Range Imaging and Tone Mapping

The document discusses high dynamic range imaging and tone mapping. It explains that cameras have limited dynamic range compared to the human visual system. High dynamic range imaging captures multiple exposures of a scene and combines them to produce an image with a wider dynamic range than any single exposure. This allows capturing both extremely bright and dark areas of a scene. Radiometric calibration is also discussed as an important preprocessing step to map measured pixel values to actual scene radiance values.

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High Dynamic Range Imaging and Tone Mapping

The document discusses high dynamic range imaging and tone mapping. It explains that cameras have limited dynamic range compared to the human visual system. High dynamic range imaging captures multiple exposures of a scene and combines them to produce an image with a wider dynamic range than any single exposure. This allows capturing both extremely bright and dark areas of a scene. Radiometric calibration is also discussed as an important preprocessing step to map measured pixel values to actual scene radiance values.

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High Dynamic Range Imaging

and Tone Mapping


Paul Debevecs SIGGRAPH Course
The Problem of Dynamic Range
Dynamic Range: Range of brightness values measurable with a camera

(Hood 1986)

Todays Cameras: Limited Dynamic Range

High Exposure Image Low Exposure Image

We need about 5-10 million values to store all brightnesses around us.
But, typical 8-bit cameras provide only 256 values!!
High Dynamic Range Imaging

Capture a lot of images with different exposure settings.

Apply radiometric calibration to each camera.

Combine the calibrated images (for example, using averaging weighted by exposures).
(Mitsunaga)

(Debevec)

Images taken with a fish-eye lens of the sky show the wide range of brightnesses.
Relationship between Scene and Image Brightness

Before light hits the image plane:

Scene Image
Scene Lens
Radiance L Irradiance E

Linear Mapping!

After light hits the image plane:

Image Camera Measured


Irradiance E Electronics Pixel Values, I

Non-linear Mapping!

Can we go from measured pixel value, I, to scene radiance, L?


Radiometric Calibration
Important preprocessing step for many vision and graphics algorithms such as
photometric stereo, invariants, de-weathering, inverse rendering, image based rendering, etc.

1
g :I E
Use a color chart with precisely known reflectances.

255

g 1 ?

Pixel Values
g

0
0 ? 1
90% 59.1% 36.2% 19.8% 9.0% 3.1%
Irradiance = const * Reflectance

Use more camera exposures to fill up the curve.


Method assumes constant lighting on all patches and works best when source is
far away (example sunlight).

Unique inverse exists because g is monotonic and smooth for all cameras.
[Greg Ward]
[Greg Ward]

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