Bottom-up segmentation for ghost-free reconstruction of a dynamic scene from multi-exposure images

  • Authors:
  • Shanmuganathan Raman;Subhasis Chaudhuri

  • Affiliations:
  • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India;Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Seventh Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging requires one to composite multiple differently exposed images of a scene in the irradiance domain and perform tone mapping of the generated HDR image for displaying on Low Dynamic Range (LDR) devices. In the case of dynamic scenes, standard techniques may introduce artifacts called ghosts if the scene changes are not accounted for. In this paper, we consider the HDR problem for dynamic scenes. We develop a novel bottom-up segmentation algorithm through superpixel grouping which would enable us to detect scene changes. We then employ a piecewise patch-based compositing methodology to directly generate the ghost-free LDR image of the dynamic scene. The primary advantage of our approach is that we do not assume any knowledge of camera response function and exposure settings. Further, our approach performs well even in the case of significant scene changes.