High Dynamic Range Imaging - Acquisition, Display, and Image-Based Lighting

Describes HDRI technology in its entirety and covers a wide-range of topics, from capture devices to tone reproduction and image-based lighting. In this book, the techniques described enable you to produce images that have a dynamic range much closer to that found in the real world, leading to an unparalleled visual experience.

List of contents

1. Introduction2. Light and Color3. High Dynamic Range Image Encodings4. HDR Video Encodings5. HDR Image Capture6. Display Devices and Printing Technologies7. Perception-Based Tone Reproduction8. Tone Reproduction Operators9. Inverse Tone Reproduction10. Visible Difference Predictors11. Image-Based Lighting

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"With the mainstream introduction of affordable LED HDTVs and computer monitors, the principles of high dynamic range imaging have gone from an academic research topic to essential knowledge. For anyone involved in software or hardware development for computer games and entertainment video, this second edition of High Dynamic Range Imaging offers everything you need and more. Highly recommended." --Ian Ashdown, President, byHeart Consultants Limited

Product details

• Authors: Paul Debevec, Paul (Institute for Creative Technologies Debevec, Debevec Paul, Wolfgang Heidrich, Heidrich Wolfgang, Karol Myszkowski, Karol (Senior Researcher in the Computer Graphics Group of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik (Germany).) Myszkowski, Karol (Senior Researcher in the Computer Graphics Group of; the Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik (Germany).) Myszkowski, Myszkowski Karol, Sumanta Pattanaik, Sumanta (University of Central Florida Pattanaik, Pattanaik Sumanta, Erik Reinhard, Erik (University of Bristol Reinhard, Erik Heidrich Reinhard, Reinhard Erik, Greg Ward, Greg (Independent Consultant Ward, Ward Greg
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2010
• EAN: 9780123749147
• ISBN: 978-0-12-374914-7
• No. of pages: 672
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Photography, filmmaking, video filmmaking; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software; Photographic equipment & techniques, PHOTOGRAPHY / Techniques / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Techniques / Equipment, Photographic equipment and techniques: general