A Reality Check for Tone-Mapping Operators

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 399-411

  Ashikhmin, Michael ^a   Goyal, Jay ^b  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Human factors; Image realism; tone mapping; visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 45449090083     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1190036.1190040     Document Type: Article

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