Selective Reverse Tone Mapping
Belén Masiá, Roland W. Fleming, Olga Sorkine, Diego Gutiérrez · MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) · 2010
High dynamic range (HDR) displays are be-coming more common, which has given rise to a number of reverse tone mapping tech-niques. The goal of these techniques is to ex-pand the dynamic range of all the existing low dynamic range content to fit that of these dis-plays. Most of the reverse tone mapping oper-ators, however, fail to offer a good solution in cases where the input images contain large sat-urated areas. In this paper we present an in-teractive higher-level approach to reverse tone mapping. Inspired by the Zone System used in photography, it can also be used as an artis-tic tool where both the tonal balance and the mood of the final depiction can be adjusted by the user. 1