High dynamic range image reconstruction

• Main Author: Sà, Asla Medeiros.
• Other Authors: Carvalho, Paulo Cezar Pinto, 1952-, Velho, Luiz.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: San Rafael, Calif (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2007.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Synthesis lectures on computer graphics and animation (Online) ; #3.
• Subjects: Image reconstruction.; Image processing > Digital techniques > Mathematical models.
• Online Access: Abstract with links to full text
• Item Description: Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.; Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Nov. 8, 2008).; Series from website.
• Physical Description: 1 electronic text (x, 53 p. : ill.) : digital file.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.; System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-51).
• ISBN: 1598295632 (electronic bk.); 9781598295634 (electronic bk.); 1598295624 (pbk.); 9781598295627 (pbk.)
• ISSN: 1932-9003
• Access: Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.

High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is an emerging field that has the potential to cause a great scientific and technological impact in the near future. Although new, this field is large and complex, with non-trivial relations to many different areas, such as image synthesis, computer vision, video and image processing, digital photography, special effects among others. For the above reasons, HDRI has been extensively researched over the past years and, consequently, the related scientific literature is vast. As an indication that the field is reaching maturity, tutorials and books on HDRI appeared. Moreover, this new resource has already reached interested practitioners in various application areas. In this book, we do not aim at covering the whole field of high dynamic range imaging and its applications, since it is a broad subject that is still evolving. Instead, our intent is to cover the basic principles behind HDRI and focus on one of the currently most important problems, both theoretically and practically. That is, the reconstruction of high dynamic range images from regular low dynamic range pictures.