Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 32, No. 7, (Proccedings of Pacific Graphics) 2013
Gabriel Eilertsen, Robert Wanat, Rafal Mantiuk, Jonas Unger
Media and Information Technology, Linköping University, Sweden
Bangor University, UK
Abstract:
Eleven tone-mapping operators intended for video processing are analyzed and evaluated with camera-captured and computer-generated high-dynamic-range content. After optimizing the parameters of the operators in a formal experiment, we inspect and rate the artifacts (flickering, ghosting, temporal color consistency) and color rendition problems (brightness, contrast and color saturation) they produce. This allows us to identify major problems and challenges that video tone-mapping needs to address. Then, we compare the tone-mapping results in a pair-wise comparison experiment to identify the operators that, on average, can be expected to perform better than the others and to assess the magnitude of differences between the best performing operators.
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Bibtex:
@article{Eilertsen:13:PG,
author = {Gabriel Eilertsen and Robert Wanat and Rafal Mantiuk and Jonas Unger},
title = {Evaluation of Tone Mapping Operators for {HDR}-video},
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
year = {2013},
volume = {32},
number = {7},
pages = {275 -- 284},
note = {Presented at Pacific Graphics, Singapore, 2013},
}
Acknowledgements:
This project was funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) through grant IIS11-0081, Linköping University Center for Industrial Information Technology (CENIIT), and COST Action IC1005 on HDR video.