Survey and evaluation of tone mapping operators for HDR video

  • Authors:
  • Gabriel Eilertsen;Jonas Unger;Robert Wanat;Rafał Mantiuk

  • Affiliations:
  • Linköping University, Sweden;Linköping University, Sweden;Bangor University, United Kingdom;Bangor University, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Talks
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This work presents a survey and a user evaluation of tone mapping operators (TMOs) for high dynamic range (HDR) video, i.e. TMOs that explicitly include a temporal model for processing of variations in the input HDR images in the time domain. The main motivations behind this work is that: robust tone mapping is one of the key aspects of HDR imaging [Reinhard et al. 2006]; recent developments in sensor and computing technologies have now made it possible to capture HDR-video, e.g. [Unger and Gustavson 2007; Tocci et al. 2011]; and, as shown by our survey, tone mapping for HDR video poses a set of completely new challenges compared to tone mapping for still HDR images. Furthermore, video tone mapping, though less studied, is highly important for a multitude of applications including gaming, cameras in mobile devices, adaptive display devices and movie post-processing.