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Fast HDR Image Generation Technique Based on Exposure Blending

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Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2010)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 6098))

Abstract

In the proposed work a method for generating HDR images based on exposure blending is described. Using three differently exposed images a single image with recovered details in shadows and highlights is generated. Input images are analyzed to locate over and underexposed regions based on pixels intensity. Local contrast of input images is also considered in order to generate the output image with correct color transactions between differently exposed areas. Then images are merged using blending function. The proposed method requires a single pass thru the image to generate the result, which allows to process one image for less than 100 milliseconds. The proposed method requires no information about camera or shutting conditions, such as shutter speed or aperture size.

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  1. Dept. Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, University of Ulsan, Mugeo-dong, Nam-ku, Ulsan, 689-740, Korea

    Andrey Vavilin, Kaushik Deb & Kang-Hyun Jo

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  1. Dept. of Computing and Numerical Analysis, University of Cordoba, Campus Universitario de Rabanales, Einstein Building, 3rd floor, 14071, Cordoba, Spain

    Nicolás García-Pedrajas

  2. Dept. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, ETS de Ingenierias Informática y de Telecomunicación, University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Francisco Herrera

  3. School of Computing, University of the West of Scotland, PA1 2BE, Paisley, UK

    Colin Fyfe

  4. Dept. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, ETS de Ingenierias Informática y de Telecomunicación, University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    José Manuel Benítez

  5. Department of Computer Science, Texas State University-San Marcos, 601 University Drive, TX 78666-4616, San Marcos, USA

    Moonis Ali

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Vavilin, A., Deb, K., Jo, KH. (2010). Fast HDR Image Generation Technique Based on Exposure Blending. In: García-Pedrajas, N., Herrera, F., Fyfe, C., Benítez, J.M., Ali, M. (eds) Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems. IEA/AIE 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6098. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13033-5_39

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