Video dynamic range compression of portrait images by simulated diffuse scene illumination

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 255-261

  Blohm, Werner ^a,b,c  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic range compression; Edge discrimination; Lightness compulation; Scale space filtering; Videoteleophony; Visual communication and image processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 6044235404     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.600893     Document Type: Article

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