Real Time Tone Mapping of HDR Video Content

High Dynamic Range (HDR) content and displays are available on the market but the vast majority of the users displays are Standard Dynamic Range (SDR), not able to reproduce the enriched, higher quality and with more details HDR content. Thus, operators to compress the HDR content and make it ready to be able to be displayed on the SDR displays with the minimum possible loss of information are needed. These algorithms are called Tone Mapping Operators (TMOs). The majority of the TMO operators were designed to address HDR images but not video sequences. The naïve application of such an operator to HDR video sequences raises visual artifacts such as flickering, ghosting and temporal inconsistency. On this work we aim to extend an existing TMO to be able to handle HDR video without suffering from the before mentioned issues. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Panos Nasiopoulos

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Partner:

TELUS (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

The University of British Columbia

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