title: Inverse tone mapping based upon retina response.
abstract: The development of high dynamic range (HDR) display arouses the research of inverse tone mapping methods, which expand dynamic range of the low dynamic range (LDR) image to match that of HDR monitor. This paper proposed a novel physiological approach, which could avoid artifacts occurred in most existing algorithms. Inspired by the property of the human visual system (HVS), this dynamic range expansion scheme performs with a low computational complexity and a limited number of parameters and obtains high-quality HDR results. Comparisons with three recent algorithms in the literature also show that the proposed method reveals more important image details and produces less contrast loss and distortion.
authors.affiliation: School of Communication and Information Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China.
authors.forename: Yongqing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huo
authors.affiliation: LE2I-CNRS 6306 Laboratory, University of Burgundy, 21078 Dijon, France.
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: LE2I-CNRS 6306 Laboratory, University of Burgundy, 21078 Dijon, France.
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Brost
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D032701:Biomimetics / Q000379:methods*; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D012160:Retina / Q000502:physiology*
references.citation: IEEE Trans Image Process. 2011 May;20(5):1351-62
references.pmid: 21078576