• Journal of The Korean Digital Architecture Interior Association
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.81-89
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• 2012

Luminance is the most important quantity in lighting design and illuminating engineering. There are three methods for measuring luminance; using a conventional luminance meter, through the illuminance measurement and subsequent calculations and using digital imaging photometer. Recently, HDRI(High Dynamic Range Imaging) technique introduces a new method of capturing luminance values in a lighting environment. The radiance maps from HDRI are commonly used as visual environment maps for lighting analysis applications. For the HDRI, HDR software is needed to create HDR image. Currently, there is number of HDR software available. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether a luminance map can be accurately captured by the various types of HDR software which include HDR Shop and Photoshop. To accomplish this goal a set of experiments was conducted. In order to assess the luminance values of the HDR image from HDR software, the values had to be compared to the ones obtained with conventional methods of luminance measurement.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.53-62
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• 2007

Although radiosity can represent diffuse reflections of the object surfaces by modeling energy exchange in 3D space, there are some restrictions for real-time applications because of its computation loads. Therefore, GPU(Graphics Processing Unit) based radiosity algorithms have been presented actively to improve its rendering performance. We implement the progressive refinement radiosity on GPU by G. Coombe in 3D scene that is constructed with HDR(High Dynamic Range) radiance map. This radiosity method can generate a photo-realistic rendering image in 3D space, where the synthetic objects were illuminated by the environmental light sources. In the simulation results, the rendering performance is analyzed according to the resolution of the texel in the environmental map and mipmaping. In addition, we compare the rendering results by our method with those by the incremental radiosity.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.988-993
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• 2007

전역조명기법(global illumination)중에서 난반사(diffuse reflection) 객체들 사이의 관계를 효과적으로 표현하는 래디오시티(radiosity)방법은 객체들 사이의 에너지 교환에 에너지 평형 상태를 모델링 한다. 그러나 래디오시티는 많은 계산량으로 인해 실시간 활용에는 적합하지 않았다. 최근 장면생성에 걸리는 소요시간을 크게 단축시킬 수 있는 비용대비 고성능의 그래픽스 하드웨어(GPU)를 이용한 방법들이 제안되고 있다. 객체들 사이에서 교환되는 에너지는 래디언스(radiance)로 표현이 가능하며, 이러한 래디언스는 대상 장면에서 취득한 HDR(High Dynamic Range) 영상으로부터 래디언스 맵을 구성해서 얻을 수 있다. 이를 기반으로 대상장면의 조명환경을 구성하면 대상장면의 복잡도와는 별개로 빠르고 사실적인 합성장면을 생성할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 G. Coombe 등이 제안한 점진적 세분(progressive refinement) 알고리즘을 수정하여 래디언스 맵을 이용할 수 있도록 하였으며, 각 텍셀(texel)설정 및 보간(interpolation) 적용 등에 따른 실험 결과를 얻고 분석하였다. 구현된 방법은 이후 영상기반 재조명과 그래픽스 하드웨어를 이용한 영상합성 기술로 영화, 애니메이션, 가상현실, 게임 등에 다양하게 활용될 예정이다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.369-382
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• 2018

We propose a single-shot high dynamic range (HDR) imaging algorithm using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for row-wise varying exposures in a single image. The proposed algorithm restores missing information resulting from under- and/or over-exposed pixels in an input image and reconstructs the raw radiance map. The main contribution of this work is the development of a loss function for the CNN employing the human visual system (HVS) properties. Then, the HDR image is obtained by applying a demosaicing algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm provides higher-quality HDR images than conventional algorithms.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.45-50
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• 2006

In order to generate a photo-realistic synthesized image, we should reconstruct light environment by 3D analysis of scene. This paper presents a novel method for identifying the positions and characteristics of the lights-the global and local lights-in the real image, which are used to illuminate the synthetic objects. First, we generate High Dynamic Range(HDR) radiance map from omni-directional images taken by a digital camera with a fisheye lens. Then, the positions of the camera and light sources in the scene are identified automatically from the correspondences between images without a priori camera calibration. Types of the light sources are classified according to whether they illuminate the whole scene, and then we reconstruct 3D illumination environment. Experimental results showed that the proposed method with distributed ray tracing makes it possible to achieve photo-realistic image synthesis. It is expected that animators and lighting experts for the film and animation industry would benefit highly from it.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.526-534
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• 2010

This paper describes an algorithm which merges two HDR pictures taken under different exposure time to display on the LDR devices such as LCD or CRT. The proposed method does not generate the radiance map, but directly merges using the weights computed from the input images. The weights are firstly produced on the pixel basis, and then blended with a Gaussian function. This process prevents some possible sparkle noises caused by radical change of the weights and contributes to smooth connection between 2 image informations. The chrominance informations of the images are merged on the weighted averaging scheme using the deviations of RGB average and their differences. The algorithm is characterized by the feature that it represents well the unsaturated area of 2 original images and the connection of the image information is smooth. The proposed method uses only 2 input images and automatically tunes the whole internal process according to them, thus autonomous operation is possible when it is included in HDR cameras which use double shuttering scheme or double sensor cells.