Tone mapping by interactive evolution

  • Authors:
  • Stephen B. Chisholm;Dirk V. Arnold;Stephen Brooks

  • Affiliations:
  • Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada;Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada;Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Tone mapping is a computational task of significance in the context of displaying high dynamic range images on low dynamic range devices. While a number of tone mapping algorithms have been proposed and are in common use, there is no single operator that yields optimal results under all conditions. Moreover, obtaining satisfactory mappings often requires the manual tweaking of parameters. This paper proposes interactive evolution as a computational tool for tone mapping. An evolution strategy that blends the results from several tone mapping operators while at the same time adapting their parameters is found to yield promising results with little effort required of the user.