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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/ieie.2015.52.1.111

Ghost-free High Dynamic Range Imaging Based on Brightness Bitmap and Hue-angle Constancy  

Yuan, Xi (School of Electronics Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
Ha, Ho-Gun (School of Electronics Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
Lee, Cheol-Hee (Computer Engineering, Andong National University)
Ha, Yeong-Ho (School of Electronics Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers / v.52, no.1, 2015 , pp. 111-120 More about this Journal
Abstract
HDR(High dynamic range) imaging is a technique to represent a dynamic range of real world. Exposure fusion is a method to obtain a pseudo-HDR image and it directly fuses multi-exposure images instead of generating the true-HDR image. However, it results ghost artifacts while fusing the multi-exposure images with moving objects. To solve this drawback, temporal consistency assessment is proposed to remove moving objects. Firstly, multi-level threshold bitmap and brightness bitmap are proposed. In addition, hue-angle constancy map between multi-exposure images is proposed for compensating a bitmap. Then, two bitmaps are combined as a temporal weight map. Spatial domain image quality assessment is used to generate a spatial weight map. Finally, two weight maps are applied at each multi-exposure image and combined to get the pseudo-HDR image. In experiments, the proposed method reduces ghost artifacts more than previous methods. The quantitative ghost-free evaluation of the proposed method is also less than others.
Keywords
exposure fusion; HDR imaging; ghost-free;
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