Photometric Image Processing for High Dynamic Range Displays
by Matthew Trentacoste
Many real-world scenes contain a dynamic range that exceeds conventional display
technology by several orders of magnitude. Through the combination of several
existing technologies, new high dynamic range displays, capable of reproducing a
range of intensities much closer to that of real environments, have been
constructed. These benefits come at the cost of more optically complex
devices; involving two image modulators, controlled in unison, to display
images. We present several methods of rendering images to this new class of
devices for reproducing photometrically accurate images. We discuss the process
of calibrating a display, matching the response of the device with our ideal
model. We then derive series of methods for efficiently displaying images,
optimized for different criteria and evaluate them in a perceptual framework.
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