Automatic noise modeling for ghost-free HDR reconstruction

  • Authors:
  • Miguel Granados;Kwang In Kim;James Tompkin;Christian Theobalt

  • Affiliations:
  • MPI für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany;MPI für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany;MPI für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany;MPI für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

High dynamic range reconstruction of dynamic scenes requires careful handling of dynamic objects to prevent ghosting. However, in a recent review, Srikantha et al. [2012] conclude that "there is no single best method and the selection of an approach depends on the user's goal". We attempt to solve this problem with a novel approach that models the noise distribution of color values. We estimate the likelihood that a pair of colors in different images are observations of the same irradiance, and we use a Markov random field prior to reconstruct irradiance from pixels that are likely to correspond to the same static scene object. Dynamic content is handled by selecting a single low dynamic range source image and hand-held capture is supported through homography-based image alignment. Our noise-based reconstruction method achieves better ghost detection and removal than state-of-the-art methods for cluttered scenes with large object displacements. As such, our method is broadly applicable and helps move the field towards a single method for dynamic scene HDR reconstruction.