Metering for Exposure Stacks

  • Authors:
  • O. Gallo;M. Tico;R. Manduchi;N. Gelfand;K. Pulli

  • Affiliations:
  • NVIDIA Research;Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto;University of California, Santa Cruz;Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto;NVIDIA Research

  • Venue:
  • Computer Graphics Forum
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

When creating a High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) image from a sequence of differently exposed Low-Dynamic-Range (LDR) images, the set of LDR images is usually generated by sampling the space of exposure times with a geometric progression and without explicitly accounting for the distribution of irradiance values of the scene. We argue that this choice can produce sub-optimal results both in terms of the number of acquired pictures and the quality of the resulting HDR image. This paper presents a method to estimate the full irradiance histogram of a scene, and a strategy to select the set of exposures that need to be acquired. Our selection usually requires a smaller or equal set of LDRs, yet produces higher quality HDR images. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.