Evaluation of tone mapping operators using a High Dynamic Range display

P Ledda, A Chambers, T Troscianko, H Seetzen

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Abstract

Tone mapping operators are designed to reproduce visibility and the overall impression of brightness, contrast and color of the real world onto limited dynamic range displays and printers. Although many tone mapping operators have been published in recent years, no thorough psychophysical experiments have yet been undertaken to compare such operators against the real scenes they are purporting to depict. In this paper, we present the results of a series of psychophysical experiments to validate six frequently used tone mapping operators against linearly mapped High Dynamic Range (HDR) scenes displayed on a novel HDR device. Individual operators address the tone mapping issue using a variety of approaches and the goals of these techniques are often quite different from one another. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation was not simply to determine which is the "best" algorithm, but more generally to propose an experimental methodology to validate such operators and to determine the participants' impressions of the images produced compared to what is visible on a high contrast ratio display.
Translated title of the contributionEvaluation of tone mapping operators using high dynamic range display
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)640-648
Number of pages9
JournalACM Transactions on Graphics
Volume24
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Jul 2005

Bibliographical note

Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005

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