Dual Modulation for LED-Backlit HDR Displays
01 Jan 2016-pp 371-388
TL;DR: This chapter outlines a new dual modulation algorithm for the rendering of HDR content and discusses practical lessons that can be helpful toward therender of more accurate and visually appealing HDR content.
Abstract: High dynamic range (HDR) and wide color gamut video processing have started to receive significant research attention in recent years, especially in relation to content generation and processing. However, displaying such content is still a challenge, and efforts are required to make their deployment possible at consumer levels. While the emergence of locally backlit displays has helped to achieve higher contrast in the display of traditional low dynamic range videos, their use for displaying HDR videos is nontrivial. This chapter, therefore, aims to first identify a few challenges in this area. It then outlines a new dual modulation algorithm for the rendering of HDR content. It also discusses practical lessons that can be helpful toward the rendering of more accurate and visually appealing HDR content.
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11 Jul 2016TL;DR: This work presents an iterative scaling approach to estimate dual modulated signals to drive the back LED panel and the front LCD screen, which is able to reproduce accurately luminance values stored in HDR files and describes a temporal smoothing mechanism to compute backlight illumination.
Abstract: In this paper, we consider the problem of accurately reproducing high dynamic range (HDR) images and video on HDR displays. Differently from conventional image reproduction devices, HDR displays require dual modulated signals to drive the back LED panel and the front LCD screen. In this work, we present an iterative scaling approach to estimate these two signals, which is able to reproduce accurately luminance values stored in HDR files. To avoid temporal artifacts due to frame-by-frame processing, we also describe a temporal smoothing mechanism to compute backlight illumination. Our results demonstrate higher accuracy than simpler approaches such as built-in display rendering. Furthermore, the proposed method offers the possibility to estimate precisely the luminance emitted by the display.
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...Given an HDR picture, the problem of estimating the corresponding LED/LCD panel values is known as dual modulation [2]....
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TL;DR: In this paper , a deep learning based local dimming method is proposed for rendering HDR images on dual-panel HDR displays, which uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) to directly predict backlight values, using as input the HDR image that is to be displayed.
Abstract: High dynamic range (HDR) displays with dual-panels are one type of displays that can provide HDR content. These are composed of a white backlight panel and a colour LCD panel. Local dimming algorithms are used to control the backlight panel in order to reproduce content with high dynamic range and contrast at a high fidelity. However, existing local dimming algorithms usually process low dynamic range (LDR) images, which are not suitable for processing HDR images. In addition, these methods use hand-crafted features to estimate the backlight values, which may not be suitable for many kind of images. In this work, a novel deep learning based local dimming method is proposed for rendering HDR images on dual-panel HDR displays. The method uses a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to directly predict backlight values, using as input the HDR image that is to be displayed. The model is designed and trained via a controllable power parameter that allows a user to trade off between power and quality. The proposed method is evaluated against seven other methods on a test set of 105 HDR images, using a variety of quantitative quality metrics. Results demonstrate improved display quality and better power consumption when using the proposed method compared to the best alternatives.
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TL;DR: A novel deep learning based local dimming method that uses a Convolutional Neural Network to directly predict backlight values, using as input the HDR image that is to be displayed on dual-panel HDR displays is proposed.
Abstract: High dynamic range (HDR) displays with dual-panels are one type of displays that can provide HDR content. These are composed of a white backlight panel and a colour LCD panel. Local dimming algorithms are used to control the backlight panel in order to reproduce content with high dynamic range and contrast at a high fidelity. However, existing local dimming algorithms usually process low dynamic range (LDR) images, which are not suitable for processing HDR images. In addition, these methods use hand-crafted features to estimate the backlight values, which may not be suitable for many kind of images. In this work, a novel deep learning based local dimming method is proposed for rendering HDR images on dual-panel HDR displays. The method uses a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to directly predict backlight values, using as input the HDR image that is to be displayed. The model is designed and trained via a controllable power parameter that allows a user to trade off between power and quality. The proposed method is evaluated against seven other methods on a test set of 105 HDR images, using a variety of quantitative quality metrics. Results demonstrate improved display quality and better power consumption when using the proposed method compared to the best alternatives.
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TL;DR: In this article, the inverse of a mapping function (IMF) method proposed as a dynamic gamma mapping curve for the backlight module, has been demonstrated to further improve in HDR image quality.
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TL;DR: The paper presents an adaptive dimming technique to reduce backlight power consumption and enhance image contrast for global backlight applications and shows the performance and usefulness of the proposed technique on a 2.2-inch mobile phone liquid crystal display made by thin-film-transistor (TFT) technology.
Abstract: The paper presents an adaptive dimming technique to reduce backlight power consumption and enhance image contrast for global backlight applications. The proposed adaptive dimming technique consists of two new algorithms: backlight dimming algorithm and contrast enhancement algorithm. The backlight-dimming algorithm obtains appropriate 0% to 50% backlight power reduction depending on characteristics of the image data. The contrast enhancement algorithm not only reduces the adverse effect of backlight power saving, but also improves 20.75% enhancement of image contrast ratio on the average. Numerous simulation results are used for illustration of the effectiveness and merits of the proposed adaptive dimming technique. Experimental results are conducted to show the performance and usefulness of the proposed technique on a 2.2-inch mobile phone liquid crystal display (LCD) made by thin-film-transistor (TFT) technology.
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