HDR-VDP-2: A calibrated visual metric for visibility and quality predictions in all luminance conditions

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Mantiuk, Rafał ^a   Kim, Kil Joong ^b   Rempel, Allan G ^c   Heidrich, Wolfgang ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

high dynamic range; image quality; sual metric; visual model; visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012209781     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2010324.1964935     Document Type: Article

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