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Efficient Reverse Tone Mapping Method Using Guided Filter

Guided Filter를 사용한 효율적인 Reverse Tone Mapping 기법

  • Kim, Sang Hyub (School of Information, Communications and Electronics Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Lee, Chang Woo (School of Information, Communications and Electronics Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea)
  • 김상협 (가톨릭대학교 정보통신전자공학부) ;
  • 이창우 (가톨릭대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
  • Received : 2017.11.01
  • Accepted : 2018.02.23
  • Published : 2018.03.30
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Abstract

Devices capable of capturing and displaying high dynamic range (HDR) images with significantly increased brightness range compared to low dynamic range (LDR) images have been developed and various methods for efficiently converting the brightness range of an image have been developed. In this paper, we propose a reverse tone mapping method using a guided filter to efficiently convert LDR images into HDR images. After obtaining brightness enhancement function (BEF) using a guided filter, we can reconstruct HDR image from one LDR image. In addition, when the image is too bright or dark, the proposed method maximizes the image quality of the reconstructed HDR image by estimating and adjusting the exposure value before expanding the brightness range of images. Computer simulations show that the proposed method produces HDR images of superior quality compared with the conventional methods.

LDR (low dynamic range) 영상에 비해서 밝기 범위가 크게 늘어난 HDR (high dynamic range) 영상을 촬영할 수 있는 장비와 디스플레이할 수 있는 기기들이 개발되고 있고 영상의 밝기 범위를 효율적으로 변환하는 방법에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 LDR 영상을 HDR 영상으로 효율적으로 변환하기 위해서 guided filter를 사용한 reverse tone mapping 기법을 제안한다. Guided filter를 사용하여 한 장의 LDR 영상으로부터 BEF(brightness enhancement function)을 구한 후에 LDR 영상에서 밝기가 포화된 부분을 효율적으로 복원하여 HDR 영상을 생성하는 기법을 제안한다. 또한 영상이 지나치게 밝거나 어두운 경우 영상 촬영시의 노출 값을 추정하여 보정한 후에 밝기 범위를 변환하는 방법을 이용하여 생성되는 HDR 영상의 화질을 극대화하는 방법을 연구하고 모의 실험 결과로부터 제안하는 기법은 기존의 방법에 비해서 우수한 화질의 HDR 영상을 생성하는 것을 입증한다.

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