Two layer lossless coding of HDR images
Masahiro Iwahashi, Hitoshi Kiya · 2013
This report proposes a two layer lossless coding system for high dynamic range (HDR) images expressed in a floating point data format. Its encoder outputs compressed image data in two layers. From the base layer, a standard low dynamic range (LDR) image is decoded. Merging with the enhancement layer, the original HDR image is decoded without any loss. We introduce a reversible logarithmic mapping to reduce bit depth of pixel values. We also introduce bit plane classification to divide data into two layers. It was confirmed that our method has better coding performance than existing methods especially at high bit rate coding of LDR images.