• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.9-16
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• 2002

Recently, high dynamic range (HDR) compression has attracted much attention due to the wide availability of HDR images. In this paper, we present an HDR compression method using a progressive image, which is a multi-level image representation based on a progressive mesh. An HDR image can be decomposed into a base image and a sequence of details by conversion into a progressive image. This decomposition provides a good structure to highly compress the dynamic range while preserving image details. The base image and larger details are considerably scaled down but smaller details are slightly scaled down. Experimental results show that our method successfully generates HDR compressed images without halo artifacts by controlling two intuitive parameters.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.675-678
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• 2007

그래픽스 분야에서 다양한 재질을 사실감 있게 표현하려는 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있는 가운데, 다양한 재질의 반사특성을 측정하는 방법들이 시도되고 있고 이때 광디텍터로 디지털카메라를 이용하면서 HDR 영상으로부터 광량을 추정한다. 그러나, 디지털카메라는 분광광도계와 달리 컬러보정이 필요하며 이로부터 생성된 HDR 영상 역시 컬러가 보정되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 일반적으로 HDR 영상을 생성하기 전에 LDR 영상들의 컬러를 보정하는 방법의 문제점을 제시하고, 직접적으로 HDR 영상의 컬러를 보정하는 HDR-레벨 컬러보정 방법을 제안한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.3672-3684
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• 2015

Recently, the standardization of backward compatible JPEG image coding for high dynamic range (HDR) image has been undertaken to establish an international standard called "JPEG XT." The JPEG XT consists of two layers: the base layer and the residual layer. The base layer contains tone mapped low dynamic range (LDR) image data and the residual layer contains the error signal used to reconstruct the HDR image. This paper gives the result of a study to evaluate the overall performance of tone mapping operators (TMOs) for this standard. The evaluation is performed using five HDR image datasets and six TMOs for profiles A, B, and C of the proposed JPEG XT standard. The Tone Mapped image Quality Index (TMQI) and no reference image quality assessment (NR IQA) are used for measuring the LDR image quality. The peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) is used to evaluate the overall compression performance of JPEG XT profiles A, B, and C. In TMQI and NR IQA measurements, TMOs using display adaptive tone mapping and adaptive logarithmic mapping each gave good results. A TMO using adaptive logarithmic mapping gave good PSNRs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.89-90
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• 2010

기존의 HDR (high dynamic range) 영상취득 기법은 한 장의 HDR 영상을 얻기 위해 여러 장의 LDR (low dynamic range) 영상을 취득하기 때문에 영상 취득에 많은 시간이 소요된다. 본 논문에서는 이런 단점을 보안하기 위해 두 장의 LDR 영상을 이용하여 평균 밝기 값에 대한 노출 곡선을 추정한다. 그리고 추정된 노출곡선을 이용하여 밝은 영상과 어두운 영상 각각의 최적의 노출 시간을 취득하는 기법을 제안한다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.901-906
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• 2018

Due to the development of display technologies for images, the resolution and quality of images are increasing day by day. In accordance with the development of the display technology, researches have been actively conducted on technologies for converting and displaying existing images to higher resolution and quality. Since the results of theses studies are included in the image signal processor, hardware implementation is indispensable. In this paper, we propose a real-time HDR(High Dynamic Range) conversion hardware implementation of LDR(Low Dynamic Range) image using luminance distribution. The proposed method extracts the features of the image using the histogram of the luminance distribution, and extends the luminance and color based on the extracted features. In addition, when the proposed method is designed by hardware IP(Intellectual Property) and its performance is verified, 4K DCI(Digital Cinema Image) can be handled at a rate of 30fps at 265.46MHz.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.182-186
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• 2021

Tone mapping operator is designed to reproduce visibility of real-world scenes such as HDR images on limited dynamic range display devices. This paper presents and implements compare and to estimate some tone mapping algorithms commonly used. The evaluation is performed by applying tone mapping operators on 7 HDR images, and by presenting the results with subjective estimation. Reinhard tone mapping algorithm is the best in the visual experimental results. The goal of this work is to discuss what is visible of high dynamic range on a normal display device and to determine to which better algorithm is. This work motivates us to make more progress through the new proposal of tone mapping operator on future work.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.1055-1065
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• 2009

High-dynamic-range (HDR) rendering technology changes the range from the broad dynamic range (up to 9 log units) of a luminance, in a real-world scene, to the 8-bit dynamic range which is the common output of a display's dynamic range. One of the techniques, iCAM06 has a superior capacity for making HDR images. iCAM06 is capable of making color appearance predictions of HDR images based on CIECAM02 and incorporating spatial process models in the human visual system (HVS) for contrast enhancement. However there are several problems in the iCAM06, including obscure user controllable factors to be decided. These factors have a serious effect on the output image but users get into difficulty in that they can't find an adequate solution on how to adjust. So a suggested model gives a quantitative formulation for user controllable factors of iCAM06 to find suitable values which corresponds with different viewing conditions, and improves subjective visuality of displayed images for varying illuminations.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.851-852
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a tone mapping method using Non-linear Dynamic Range Normalization (NDRN) for High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. HDR images are not suitable for commercial display devices because dynamic range of HDR images do not match with one of Low Dynamic Range (LDR) display devices. To reproduce a tone of HDR images for LDR displays, tone mapping methods have been proposed such as local and global tone mapping. We introduce NDRN to locate mean of HDR images at the center of LDR. NDRN preserves the details for highlight and shadow. By suppressing the significant luminance change in tone mapping, naturalness of original image can be also preserved. The experimental results show that the proposed method preserves details and naturalness of original images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06c
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• pp.317-319
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 아웃라이어 처리를 통한 강인한 HDR 영상 복원 방법을 제시한다. 기존의 방법들은 LDR 영상들에서 흔히 발생하는 긴 노출시간으로 인한 블러 현상이나 저노출/과노출로 인한 포화 픽셀(아웃라이어)을 고려하지 않았다. 본 논문이 제시하는 방법은 MAP(Maximum a priori)을 이용하여 블러 및 아웃라이어를 반영하여 HDR 영상 복원 문제를 정확히 모델링하고, 블러 추정 및 EM(Expectation-Maximization) 알고리즘 기반의 아웃라이어 추정을 통해 품질 저하가 없는 선명한 HDR 영상을 복원한다. 실험 결과를 통해 본 논문이 제시하는 방법이 블러 및 아웃라이어를 포함하는 LDR 영상들로부터 우수한 품질의 HDR 영상을 효과적으로 복원할 수 있음을 보이며, 최근에 개발된 방법들과 비교해서도 더 우수한 품질을 갖는 것을 볼 수 있다.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.137-140
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• 2021

High dynamic range (HDR) technology has been drawing attention in the field of imaging and consumer entertainment. As tools for capturing and creating HDR contents, encoding, and transmission evolve to support HDR formats, various display capabilities are being developed and increased. Hence, there is need for remapping native HDR imagery for display on lower quality legacy standard dynamic range (SDR) displays. This operation is referred to as tone mapping. In this paper, we present a sectional tone mapping method by Lenzen, and expand upon a tone mapping approach to improve temporal stability while maintaining picture quality. Compared to the existing block-based sectional tone mapping, our method uses the edge awareness-based tone mapping. We estimate the performance of the objective metric on temporal flickering. The experimental result shows that the algorithm maintains a smoother relationship between the output luminance values, and this reveals success in reducing halos and improving temporal stability with adopted edge aware filtering.