Tone Mapping HDR Panoramas for Viewing in Head Mounted Displays

Miguel Melo, Kadi Bouatouch, Maximino Bessa, Hugo Coelho, Remi Cozot, Alan Chalmers

2018

Abstract

Head-mounted displays enable a user to view a complete environment as if he/she was there; providing an immersive experience. However, the lighting in a full environment can vary significantly. Panoramic images captured with conventional, Low Dynamic Range (LDR), imaging of scenes with a large range of lighting conditions, can include areas of under- or over-exposed pixels. High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging, on the other hand, is able to capture the full range of detail in a scene. However, HMDs are not currently HDR and thus the HDR panorama needs to be tone mapped before it can be displayed on the LDR HMD. While a large number of tone mapping operators have been proposed in the last 25 years, these were not designed for panoramic images, or for use with HMDs. This paper undertakes a two part subjective study to investigate which of the current, state-of-the-art tone mappers is most suitable for use with HMDs.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Melo M., Bouatouch K., Bessa M., Coelho H., Cozot R. and Chalmers A. (2018). Tone Mapping HDR Panoramas for Viewing in Head Mounted Displays. In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2018) - Volume 1: GRAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-287-5, SciTePress, pages 232-239. DOI: 10.5220/0006615402320239

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp18,
author={Miguel Melo and Kadi Bouatouch and Maximino Bessa and Hugo Coelho and Remi Cozot and Alan Chalmers},
title={Tone Mapping HDR Panoramas for Viewing in Head Mounted Displays},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2018) - Volume 1: GRAPP},
year={2018},
pages={232-239},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006615402320239},
isbn={978-989-758-287-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2018) - Volume 1: GRAPP
TI - Tone Mapping HDR Panoramas for Viewing in Head Mounted Displays
SN - 978-989-758-287-5
AU - Melo M.
AU - Bouatouch K.
AU - Bessa M.
AU - Coelho H.
AU - Cozot R.
AU - Chalmers A.
PY - 2018
SP - 232
EP - 239
DO - 10.5220/0006615402320239
PB - SciTePress