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Color Correction Method for High Dynamic Range Image Using Dynamic Cone Response Function

동적 원추 세포 응답을 이용한 높은 동적 폭을 갖는 영상 색상 보정 방법

  • Choi, Ho-Hyoung (Dept. of Mobile Communication, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Yun, Byoung-Ju (School of EECS, IT College, Kyungpook National University)
  • 최호형 (경북대학교 모바일통신학과) ;
  • 윤병주 (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부)
  • Received : 2012.01.04
  • Published : 2012.09.25

Abstract

Recently, the HDR imaging technique that mimics human eye is incorporated with LCD/LED display devices to deal with mismatch between the real world scene and the displayed image. However, HDR image has a veiling glare limit as well as a scale of the local contrast problem. In order to overcome these problems, several color correction methods, CSR(center/surround Retinex), MSR (Multi-Scale Retinex), tone-mapping method, iCAM06 and so on, are proposed. However, these methods have a dominated color throughout the entire resulting image after performing color correction. Accordingly, this paper presents a new color correction method using dynamic cone response function. The proposed color correction method consists of tone-mapping and dynamic cone response. The tone-mapping is obtained by using a linear interpolation between chromatic and achromatic. Thereafter, the resulting image is processed through the dynamic cone response function, which estimates the dynamic responses of human visual system as well as deals with mismatch between the real scene image and the rendered image. The experiment results show that the proposed method yields better performance of color correction over the conventional methods.

최근 들어, 실제 환경 영상과 디스플레이 영상간의 인지적 불일치를 위해, 인간 시각 시스템을 흉내 낸 높은 동적 범위를 갖는 영상 촬영 기술이 LCD/LED 디스플레이 장치에 사용되고 있다. 그러나 HDR 영상에는 섬광 한계뿐만 아니라 국부 영상 대비 등의 문제가 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 중심/주변 레티넥스, 다중 스케일 영상 레티넥스, 톤 매핑 방법, iCAM06 등 여러 가지 색상 보정 방법들이 제안되었다. 그러나 기존의 방법들에서는 결과 영상내의 전반적으로 특정 색상 두드러짐 현상이 발생한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 동적 원추 세포 응답을 이용한 영상 보정 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 톤 매핑과 동적 원추 세포 응답으로 구성된다. 색도 성분과 비색도 성분의 선형적인 보간을 이용하여 톤 매핑을 수행하고, 톤 매핑의 결과 영상에서 동적 원추 세포 응답 함수를 이용하여 원추세포 응답을 획득한다. 획득된 원추세포 응답을 이용하여 색상 보정을 수행한다. 이는 인간 눈의 동적 응답을 예측함과 동시에 보정된 영상이 실제 환경과 최대한 일치하도록 한다. 실험 결과에서 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법에 비해 색상 보정 효과가 우수함을 보인다.

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