Showing papers on "Tone mapping published in 1993"
TL;DR: Sensation-preserving conversions for display, already known in photography, printing, and television as tone reproduction methods, are discussed and ways of constructing a sensation-preservative display converter, or tone reproduction operator, for monochrome images are demonstrated.
Abstract: Radiosity and other global illumination methods for image synthesis calculate the real world radiance values of a scene instead of the display radiance values that will represent them. Though radiosity and ray tracing methods can compute extremely accurate and wide-ranging scene radiances, modern display devices emit light only in a tiny fixed range. The radiances must be converted, but ad-hoc conversions cause serious errors and give little assurance that the evoked visual sensations are truly equivalent. Sensation-preserving conversions for display, already known in photography, printing, and television as tone reproduction methods, are discussed. Computer graphics workers can apply the existing photographic methods, but may also extend them to include more complex and subtle effects of human vision using the published findings of vision researchers. Ways of constructing a sensation-preserving display converter, or tone reproduction operator, for monochrome images are demonstrated. >
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18 Sep 1993TL;DR: In this article, a system and method of image reproduction in color with preferential tone mapping in which the image reproduction is subjected to a scene parameter transformation which results in a reproduced tone mapping having instantaneous gamma values of viewed reproduction density relative to density of the original scene which are greater than 1.0 plus 0.35 times scene exposure density over a scene exposure range of from 0.6 to 1.45.
Abstract: A system and method of image reproduction in color with preferential tone mapping in which the image reproduction is subjected to a scene parameter transformation which when taken in conjunction with untransformed characteristics of the image reproduction system and method results in a reproduced tone mapping having instantaneous gamma values of viewed reproduction density relative to density of the original scene which are greater than 1.0 and less than 1.0 plus 0.35 times scene exposure density over a scene exposure density range of from 0.6 to 1.45 as measured relative to a zero density, 100% diffuse reflector in the original scene. Preferably, the instantaneous gamma values within this scene exposure density range further lie substantially within a range of values subtended by an angle of 14° as measured from a reference point at 0.0 scene exposure density and 1.0 viewed reproduction density gradient.
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