Ebook: High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) Vision
- Tags: Signal Image and Speech Processing, Optics Optoelectronics Plasmonics and Optical Devices, Computer Imaging Vision Pattern Recognition and Graphics, Control Robotics Mechatronics, Engineering general
- Series: ADVANCED MICROELECTRONICS 26
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Creating high-fidelity images of our world has been a continuous challenge, even as our understanding and skills have evolved. The acquisition and mapping of the rich and complex content of visual information rank high among the most demanding technical tasks. Now electronic image sensors can record a dynamic range from bright to dark of more than seven orders of magnitude, thus exceeding the ability of a human eye by more than a hundred times and displaying five orders of magnitude in brightness, resulting in CRT and LCD displays with more than 100-fold improvement. This first comprehensive account of high-dynamic-range (HDR) vision focusses on HDR real-time, high-speed digital video recording and also systematically presents HDR video transmission and display. The power of the eye-like, logarithmic optoelectronic conversion concept is demonstrated in machine-vision, medical, automotive, surveillance and cinematic applications, and it is extended to HDR sub-retinal implants for the vision impaired. While the book conveys the overall picture of HDR vision, specific knowledge of microelectronics and image processing is not required. It provides a quantitative summary of the major issues to allow the assessment of the state of the art and a glimpse at future developments. Selected experts share their know-how and expectations in this rapidly evolving art related to the single most powerful of our senses.
Creating high-fidelity images of our world has been a continuous challenge, even as our understanding and skills have evolved. The acquisition and mapping of the rich and complex content of visual information rank high among the most demanding technical tasks. Now electronic image sensors can record a dynamic range from bright to dark of more than seven orders of magnitude, thus exceeding the ability of a human eye by more than a hundred times and displaying five orders of magnitude in brightness, resulting in CRT and LCD displays with more than 100-fold improvement. This first comprehensive account of high-dynamic-range (HDR) vision focusses on HDR real-time, high-speed digital video recording and also systematically presents HDR video transmission and display. The power of the eye-like, logarithmic optoelectronic conversion concept is demonstrated in machine-vision, medical, automotive, surveillance and cinematic applications, and it is extended to HDR sub-retinal implants for the vision impaired. While the book conveys the overall picture of HDR vision, specific knowledge of microelectronics and image processing is not required. It provides a quantitative summary of the major issues to allow the assessment of the state of the art and a glimpse at future developments. Selected experts share their know-how and expectations in this rapidly evolving art related to the single most powerful of our senses.
Creating high-fidelity images of our world has been a continuous challenge, even as our understanding and skills have evolved. The acquisition and mapping of the rich and complex content of visual information rank high among the most demanding technical tasks. Now electronic image sensors can record a dynamic range from bright to dark of more than seven orders of magnitude, thus exceeding the ability of a human eye by more than a hundred times and displaying five orders of magnitude in brightness, resulting in CRT and LCD displays with more than 100-fold improvement. This first comprehensive account of high-dynamic-range (HDR) vision focusses on HDR real-time, high-speed digital video recording and also systematically presents HDR video transmission and display. The power of the eye-like, logarithmic optoelectronic conversion concept is demonstrated in machine-vision, medical, automotive, surveillance and cinematic applications, and it is extended to HDR sub-retinal implants for the vision impaired. While the book conveys the overall picture of HDR vision, specific knowledge of microelectronics and image processing is not required. It provides a quantitative summary of the major issues to allow the assessment of the state of the art and a glimpse at future developments. Selected experts share their know-how and expectations in this rapidly evolving art related to the single most powerful of our senses.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
The Eye and High-Dynamic-Range Vision....Pages 1-12
The High-Dynamic-Range Sensor....Pages 13-56
HDR Image Noise....Pages 57-63
High-Dynamic-Range Contrast and Color Management....Pages 65-71
HDR Video Cameras....Pages 73-97
Lenses for HDR Imaging....Pages 99-105
HDRC Cameras for High-Speed Machine Vision....Pages 107-121
HDR Vision for Driver Assistance....Pages 123-136
Miniature HDRC Cameras for Endoscopy....Pages 137-139
HDR Sub-retinal Implant for the Vision Impaired....Pages 141-146
HDR Tone Mapping....Pages 147-178
HDR Image and Video Compression....Pages 179-192
HDR Applications in Computer Graphics....Pages 193-210
High-Dynamic Range Displays....Pages 211-223
Appendix....Pages 225-231
Back Matter....Pages 233-241
Creating high-fidelity images of our world has been a continuous challenge, even as our understanding and skills have evolved. The acquisition and mapping of the rich and complex content of visual information rank high among the most demanding technical tasks. Now electronic image sensors can record a dynamic range from bright to dark of more than seven orders of magnitude, thus exceeding the ability of a human eye by more than a hundred times and displaying five orders of magnitude in brightness, resulting in CRT and LCD displays with more than 100-fold improvement. This first comprehensive account of high-dynamic-range (HDR) vision focusses on HDR real-time, high-speed digital video recording and also systematically presents HDR video transmission and display. The power of the eye-like, logarithmic optoelectronic conversion concept is demonstrated in machine-vision, medical, automotive, surveillance and cinematic applications, and it is extended to HDR sub-retinal implants for the vision impaired. While the book conveys the overall picture of HDR vision, specific knowledge of microelectronics and image processing is not required. It provides a quantitative summary of the major issues to allow the assessment of the state of the art and a glimpse at future developments. Selected experts share their know-how and expectations in this rapidly evolving art related to the single most powerful of our senses.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
The Eye and High-Dynamic-Range Vision....Pages 1-12
The High-Dynamic-Range Sensor....Pages 13-56
HDR Image Noise....Pages 57-63
High-Dynamic-Range Contrast and Color Management....Pages 65-71
HDR Video Cameras....Pages 73-97
Lenses for HDR Imaging....Pages 99-105
HDRC Cameras for High-Speed Machine Vision....Pages 107-121
HDR Vision for Driver Assistance....Pages 123-136
Miniature HDRC Cameras for Endoscopy....Pages 137-139
HDR Sub-retinal Implant for the Vision Impaired....Pages 141-146
HDR Tone Mapping....Pages 147-178
HDR Image and Video Compression....Pages 179-192
HDR Applications in Computer Graphics....Pages 193-210
High-Dynamic Range Displays....Pages 211-223
Appendix....Pages 225-231
Back Matter....Pages 233-241
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