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: Single-photon detection for long-range imaging and sensingInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Dear Mr. HenshawThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Range-Doppler Imaging of Rotating ObjectsCited 623 times
5. Go sideways: High-dynamic-range televisionA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: HDR10A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Range-Doppler Imaging of Rotating Objects

  Jack Walker · 1980 · IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems · 623 citations

• Active, optical range imaging sensors

  Paul J. Besl · 1988 · Machine Vision and Applications · 354 citations

• Range-gated underwater laser imaging system

  Georges R. Fournier, Deni Bonnier, J. Luc Forand · 1993 · Optical Engineering · 121 citations

• Long-range three-dimensional imaging using range-gated laser radar images

  Pierre Andersson · 2006 · Optical Engineering · 113 citations

• Long-range polarimetric imaging through fog

  Julien Fade, Swapnesh Panigrahi, Anthony Carré · 2014 · Applied Optics · 109 citations

• Range imaging using frequency diversity

  Robert D. Palmer, Tian‐You Yu, Phillip B. Chilson · 1999 · Radio Science · 81 citations

• Noise reduction in high dynamic range imaging

  Ahmet Oğuz Akyüz, Erik Reinhard · 2007 · Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation · 69 citations

• High Dynamic Range Imaging of Natural Scenes

  Feng Xiao, Jeffrey M. DiCarlo, Peter B. Catrysse · 2002 · Color and Imaging Conference · 41 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Single-photon detection for long-range imaging and sensing

  Robert H. Hadfield, Jonathan Leach, Fiona Fleming · 2023 · Optica · 233 citations

• Resolution enhancement of long-range imaging with sparse apertures

  Jiachen Wu, Feng Yang, Liangcai Cao · 2022 · Optics and Lasers in Engineering · 51 citations

• High dynamic range imaging via gradient-aware context aggregation network

  Qingsen Yan, Dong Gong, Javen Qinfeng Shi · 2022 · Pattern Recognition · 36 citations

• Portable widefield fundus camera with high dynamic range imaging capability

  Alfa Rossi, Mojtaba Rahimi, David Le · 2023 · Biomedical Optics Express · 27 citations

• Long-range photon-efficient 3D imaging without range ambiguity

  Chen Dai, Wen-Long Ye, Chao Yu · 2023 · Optics Letters · 19 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Dear Mr. HenshawBeverly Cleary · 1983
• This Is Not My HatJon Klassen · 2001
• Practical HDRDavid Nightingale, Steve Luck · 2009
• Advanced high dynamic range imagingFrancesco Banterle · 2011
• 📕The art and science of HDR imagingJohn J. McCann · 2011
• The HDR bookRafael Concepcion · 2011
• 📕The first diffraction-limited images from the W.M. Keck TelescopeK. Matthews · 1996
• Film & digital techniques for zone system photographyGlenn Rand · 2008

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🔗 Related topics

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