Title
High dynamic range (HDR) video processing for the exploitation of high bit-depth sensors in human-monitored surveillance
Abstract
High bit-depth video data is becoming more common in imaging and remote sensing because higher bit-depth cameras are becoming more affordable. Displays often represent images in lower bit-depths, and human vision is not able to completely exploit this additional information in its native form. These problems are addressed with High Dynamic Range (HDR) tone mapping, which nonlinearly maps lightness levels from a high bit-depth image into a lower bit-depth representation in a way that attempts to retain and accentuate the maximum amount of useful information therein. We have adapted the well-known Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE) algorithm into the application of HDR video tone mapping by using time-adaptive local histogram transformations. In addition to lightness contrast, we use the transformations in the L*a*b* color space to amplify color contrast in the video stream. The transformed HDR video data maintains important details in local contrast while maintaining relative lightness levels locally through time. Our results show that time-adapted HDR tone mapping methods can be used in real-time video processing to store and display HDR data in low bit-depth formats with less loss of useful information compared to simple truncation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/AIPR.2014.7041912
Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop
Keywords
Field
DocType
adaptive equalisers,image colour analysis,image representation,transforms,video signal processing,video surveillance,CLAHE algorithm,HDR video tone mapping,color contrast,contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization algorithm,high bit-depth image,high bit-depth video data,high dynamic range tone mapping,human vision,local contrast,lower bit-depth representation,real-time video processing,relative lightness levels,time-adapted HDR tone mapping methods,time-adaptive local histogram transformations,video stream,10-bit video,CLAHE,EWMA,HDR,bit-depth,remote sensing,surveillance
Histogram,Computer vision,Video processing,Color space,Computer science,Color depth,Adaptive histogram equalization,Tone mapping,Artificial intelligence,Histogram equalization,High dynamic range
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-5219
1
0.37
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Donald J. Natale131.42
Matthew S. Baran231.42
Richard L. Tutwiler3455.80