Noise reduction in high dynamic range imaging

  • Authors:
  • Ahmet Oğuz Akyüz;Erik Reinhard

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, FL 32816, USA and Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 38, Tuebingen 72076, Germany;University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, FL 32816, USA and University of Bristol, Department of Computer Science, Merchant Venturers Building, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 ...

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A common method to create high dynamic range (HDR) images is to combine several different exposures of the same scene. In this approach, the use of higher ISO settings will reduce exposure times, and thereby the total capture time. This is advantageous in certain environments where it may help minimize ghosting artifacts. However, exposures taken at high sensitivity settings tend to be noisy, which is further amplified by the HDR creation algorithm. We present a robust and efficient technique to significantly reduce noise in an HDR image even when its constituent exposures are taken at very high ISO settings. The method does not introduce blur or other artifacts, and leverages the wealth of information available in a sequence of aligned exposures.