Everything about High dynamic range

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: High dynamic rangeA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Engineering Graphene Phototransistors for High Dynamic Range ApplicationsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Advanced high dynamic range imagingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Gradient domain high dynamic range compressionCited 747 times
5. Go sideways: High-dynamic-range televisionA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: HDR10A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Gradient domain high dynamic range compression

  Raanan Fattal, Dani Lischinski, Michael Werman · 2002 · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 747 citations

• Deep high dynamic range imaging of dynamic scenes

  Nima Khademi Kalantari, Ravi Ramamoorthi · 2017 · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 561 citations

• High dynamic range display systems

  Helge Seetzen, Wolfgang Heidrich, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger · 2004 · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 390 citations

• High dynamic range video

  Sing Bing Kang, Matthew Uyttendaele, Simon Winder · 2003 · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 367 citations

• High dynamic range scanning technique

  Song Zhang, Shing-Tung Yau · 2009 · Optical Engineering · 228 citations

• Automatic High-Dynamic Range Image Generation for Dynamic Scenes

  Katrien Jacobs, Celine Loscos, Greg Ward · 2008 · IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications · 213 citations

• Patch-based high dynamic range video

  Nima Khademi Kalantari, Eli Shechtman, Connelly Barnes · 2013 · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 107 citations

• Dynamic Backlight Gamma on High Dynamic Range LCD TVs

  Fang-Cheng Lin, Yi-Pai Huang, Lin-Yao Liao · 2008 · Journal of Display Technology · 105 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Engineering Graphene Phototransistors for High Dynamic Range Applications

  Shadi Nashashibi, Stefan M. Koepfli, Raphael Schwanninger · 2024 · ACS Nano · 24 citations

• High Dynamic Range Imaging via Spatial-Frequency Interaction

  Weiyu Zhou, Yongqing Yang, Tao Hu · 2026 · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 15 citations

• Time-slicing high dynamic range 3D imaging

  Fanfei Li, Shaohui Zhang, Lusong Li · 2023 · Optics Express · 14 citations

• Multi-exposure high dynamic range imaging based on LSGAN

  Yongqing Huo, Jing Gan, Wenke Jiang · 2024 · Displays · 14 citations

• High fidelity sampling schedules for NMR spectra of high dynamic range

  Sven G. Hyberts, Gerhard Wagner · 2022 · Journal of Magnetic Resonance · 12 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Advanced high dynamic range imagingFrancesco Banterle · 2011
• Practical HDRDavid Nightingale, Steve Luck · 2009
• 📕The art and science of HDR imagingJohn J. McCann · 2011
• The HDR bookRafael Concepcion · 2011
• High dynamic range digital photography for dummiesRobert Correll · 2009
• High dynamic range imagingErik Reinhard, Wolfgang Heidrich · 2005
• Plug In with NikJohn Batdorff · 2013
• 📕HDR PhotographyTim Cooper · 2015

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🔗 Related topics

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• Hybrid log–gamma Hybrid log–gamma (HLG) is a transfer function jointly developed by the BBC and NHK for high dynamic range (HDR) display. It is backward compatible with…
• Multi-exposure HDR capture In photography and videography, multi-exposure HDR capture is a technique that creates high dynamic range (HDR) images (or extended dynamic range images)…
• Ultra HDR Ultra HDR is an image format that encodes a gain map into the metadata of a JPEG image. This allows for compatible decoders to decode and display a high…
• Standard-dynamic-range video Standard-dynamic-range video (SDR video) is a video technology which represents light intensity based on the brightness, contrast and color characteristics…
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