High dynamic range imaging by fusing multiple raw images and tone reproduction

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 10-15

  Kao, Wen Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

High dynamic range imaging; Image fusion and contrast enhancement; Tone reproduction

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; LUMINANCE;

HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGING; MULTIPLE RAW IMAGES; TONE REPRODUCTION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 41649096535     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2008.4470017     Document Type: Article

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