Dynamic range compression based on illumination compensation

  • Authors:
  • M. Ogata;T. Tsuchiya;T. Kubozono;K. Ueda

  • Affiliations:
  • Sony Corp., Tokyo;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper presents a new approach for effectively compressing the dynamic range of a visual scene while preserving the local contrast in order to reproduce a high quality image on devices with limited dynamic range. In this method, dynamic range compression is performed through a reduction of the illumination effect, by taking into account the characteristics of the human visual system. To precisely extract the illumination component within a reasonable complexity, a multi-scale nonlinear filtering scheme, referred to here as nonlinear multi-scale retinex (NMR), was developed