Probabilistic exposure fusion

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 341-357

  Song, Mingli ^a   Tao, Dacheng ^b   Chen, Chun ^a   Bu, Jiajun ^a   Luo, Jiebo ^c   Zhang, Chengqi ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic range; probabilistic model; scene modeling

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST RATIO; DYNAMIC RANGE; EXPOSURE LEVEL; GLOBAL OPERATORS; HDR IMAGE; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; IMAGE LUMINANCE; IMAGE SERIES; LOCAL ADAPTATION; LOCAL OPERATORS; NATURAL SCENES; PARAMETER-TUNING; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SCENE MODELING; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; TONE MAPPING; TONE MAPPING OPERATORS;

IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA DISPLAY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84255162795     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2157514     Document Type: Article

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