The JPEG still picture compression standard
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on digital multimedia systems
The RADIANCE lighting simulation and rendering system
SIGGRAPH '94 Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
The visible differences predictor: an algorithm for the assessment of image fidelity
Digital images and human vision
Recovering high dynamic range radiance maps from photographs
Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A multiscale model of adaptation and spatial vision for realistic image display
Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
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
A tone mapping algorithm for high contrast images
EGRW '02 Proceedings of the 13th Eurographics workshop on Rendering
A Visibility Matching Tone Reproduction Operator for High Dynamic Range Scenes
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Limits on Super-Resolution and How to Break Them
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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The transition from traditional 24-bit RGB to high dynamic range (HDR) images is hindered by excessively large file formats with no backwards compatibility. In this paper, we propose a simple approach to HDR encoding that parallels the evolution of color television from its grayscale beginnings. A tone-mapped version of each HDR original is accompanied by restorative information carried in a subband of a standard 24-bit RGB format. This subband contains a compressed ratio image, which when multiplied by the tone-mapped foreground, recovers the HDR original. The tone-mapped image data may be compressed, permitting the composite to be delivered in a standard JPEG wrapper. To naive software, the image looks like any other, and displays as a tone-mapped version of the original. To HDRenabled software, the foreground image is merely a tone-mapping suggestion, as the original pixel data are available by decoding the information in the subband. We present specifics of the method and the results of encoding a series of synthetic and natural HDR images, using various published global and local tone-mapping operators to generate the foreground images. Errors are visible in only a very small percentage of the pixels after decoding, and the technique requires only a modest amount of additional space for the subband data, independent of image size.