Recovering high dynamic range radiance maps from photographs
Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Rendering with radiance: the art and science of lighting visualization
Rendering with radiance: the art and science of lighting visualization
LogLuv encoding for full-gamut, high-dynamic range images
Journal of Graphics Tools
Gradient domain high dynamic range compression
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Fast bilateral filtering for the display of high-dynamic-range images
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Photographic tone reproduction for digital images
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Digital Video and HDTV Algorithms and Interfaces
Digital Video and HDTV Algorithms and Interfaces
Subband encoding of high dynamic range imagery
APGV '04 Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization
Perception-motivated high dynamic range video encoding
ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers
High-Dynamic-Range Still-Image Encoding in JPEG 2000
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Backward compatible high dynamic range MPEG video compression
ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Papers
Elements of Information Theory (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)
Elements of Information Theory (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)
Encoding of high dynamic range video with a model of human cones
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Two-layer coding algorithm for high dynamic range images based on luminance compensation
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 papers
Overview of the H.264/AVC video coding standard
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Rate-constrained coder control and comparison of video coding standards
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Implicit Bit Allocation for Combined Coarse Granular Scalability and Spatial Scalability
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Optimizing a Tone Curve for Backward-Compatible High Dynamic Range Image and Video Compression
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Perceptually based tone mapping of high dynamic range image streams
EGSR'05 Proceedings of the Sixteenth Eurographics conference on Rendering Techniques
Tone mapping based HDR compression: Does it affect visual experience?
Image Communication
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An efficient algorithm to compress high dynamic range (HDR) videos into layered bitstreams is proposed in this work. First, we separate an HDR video sequence into a tone-mapped low dynamic range (LDR) sequence and a ratio sequence, which represents ratios between HDR and LDR pixel values. Then, we encode the LDR and ratio sequences to maximize the rate-distortion (R-D) performance by extending the standard H.264/AVC codec. Specifically, we estimate the distortion of the HDR sequence from those of the LDR sequence and the ratio sequence, and then allocate a limited bit budget to the LDR sequence and the ratio sequence efficiently to maximize the qualities of both LDR and HDR sequences. Conventional LDR devices use only the LDR stream, whereas HDR devices reconstruct the HDR video from the LDR and ratio streams. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm provides significantly better R-D performance than conventional HDR video coding techniques.