Forward and backward tone mapping of high dynamic range images based on sub band architecture

Ines Bouzidi; Azza Ouled Zaid

doi:10.1117/12.2083399

8 February 2015 Forward and backward tone mapping of high dynamic range images based on subband architecture

Ines Bouzidi, Azza Ouled Zaid

Proceedings Volume 9396, Image Quality and System Performance XII; 939605 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2083399
Event: SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

This paper presents a novel High Dynamic Range (HDR) tone mapping (TM) system based on sub-band architecture. Standard wavelet filters of Daubechies, Symlets, Coiflets and Biorthogonal were used to estimate the proposed system performance in terms of Low Dynamic Range (LDR) image quality and reconstructed HDR image fidelity. During TM stage, the HDR image is firstly decomposed in sub-bands using symmetrical analysis-synthesis filter bank. The transform coefficients are then rescaled using a predefined gain map. The inverse Tone Mapping (iTM) stage is straightforward. Indeed, the LDR image passes through the same sub-band architecture. But, instead of reducing the dynamic range, the LDR content is boosted to an HDR representation. Moreover, in our TM sheme, we included an optimization module to select the gain map components that minimize the reconstruction error, and consequently resulting in high fidelity HDR content. Comparisons with recent state-of-the-art methods have shown that our method provides better results in terms of visual quality and HDR reconstruction fidelity using objective and subjective evaluations.

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Ines Bouzidi and Azza Ouled Zaid "Forward and backward tone mapping of high dynamic range images based on subband architecture", Proc. SPIE 9396, Image Quality and System Performance XII, 939605 (8 February 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2083399

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