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Dr. Qian Chen

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Proceedings Article | 27 February 2015 Paper

Near constant-time optimal piecewise LDR to HDR inverse tone mapping

Qian Chen, Guan-Ming Su, Peng Yin

Proceedings Volume 9404, 94040O (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2080389

KEYWORDS: High dynamic range imaging, Image compression, Image quality, Neodymium, Image segmentation, Distortion, Light sources, Digital photography, Electronic imaging, Current controlled current source

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In a backward compatible HDR image/video compression, it is a general approach to reconstruct HDR from compressed LDR as a prediction to original HDR, which is referred to as inverse tone mapping. Experimental results show that 2- piecewise 2^nd order polynomial has the best mapping accuracy than 1 piece high order or 2-piecewise linear, but it is also the most time-consuming method because to find the optimal pivot point to split LDR range to 2 pieces requires exhaustive search. In this paper, we propose a fast algorithm that completes optimal 2-piecewise 2^nd order polynomial inverse tone mapping in near constant time without quality degradation. We observe that in least square solution, each entry in the intermediate matrix can be written as the sum of some basic terms, which can be pre-calculated into look-up tables. Since solving the matrix becomes looking up values in tables, computation time barely differs regardless of the number of points searched. Hence, we can carry out the most thorough pivot point search to find the optimal pivot that minimizes MSE in near constant time. Experiment shows that our proposed method achieves the same PSNR performance while saving 60 times computation time compared to the traditional exhaustive search in 2-piecewise 2^nd order polynomial inverse tone mapping with continuous constraint.

Proceedings Article | 7 March 2014 Paper

Spatial adaptive upsampling filter for HDR image based on multiple luminance range

Qian Chen, Guan-ming Su, Yin Peng

Proceedings Volume 9023, 902311 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042267

KEYWORDS: High dynamic range imaging, Image filtering, Digital filtering, Optimal filtering, Distortion, Image resolution, Optical filters, Spatial filters, Cameras, Electronic filtering

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In this paper, we propose an adaptive upsampling filter to spatially upscale HDR image based on luminance range of the HDR picture in each color channel. It first searches for the optimal luminance range values to partition an HDR image to three different parts: dark, mid-tone and highlight. Then we derive the optimal set of filter coefficients both vertically and horizontally for each part. When the HDR pixel is within the dark area, we apply one set of filter coefficients to vertically upsample the pixel. If the HDR pixel falls in mid-tone area, we apply another set of filter for vertical upsampling. Otherwise the HDR pixel is in highlight area, another set of filter will be applied for vertical upsampling. Horizontal upsampling will be carried out likewise based on its luminance. The inherent idea to partition HDR image to different luminance areas is based on the fact that most HDR images are created from multiple exposures. Different exposures usually demonstrate slight variation in captured signal statistics, such as noise level, subtle misalignment etc. Hence, to group different regions to three luminance partitions actually helps to eliminate the variation between signals, and to derive optimal filter for each group with signals of lesser variation is certainly more efficient than for the entire HDR image. Experimental results show that the proposed adaptive upsampling filter based on luminance ranges outperforms the optimal upsampling filter around 0.57dB for R channel, 0.44dB for G channel and 0.31dB for B channel.

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