Copyright 2010 by Max-Planck-Institut Informatik
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____Human eyes have extremely high visual range that can easily differentiate between very bright and dark regions in the same scene. High Dynamic Range Imaging is a technique to emulate this behavior with the low end commercial cameras available in the market by taking video of the same static scene at various exposures and then merging the frames together.____In a simple static setting, the process of HDR starts from image acquisition at various exposures of the same scene at quick succession so that effect of changing light conditions can be ignored. Despite using tripods for greater control, some perturbation is inevitable, therefore, camera alignment is often necessary.
The goal of our project is to get a HDR output stream from two aligned LDR cameras and utilizing a beam splitter. The conversion is performed in real time.
HDR Video process consists of:
- Getting the input streams and processing them into a HDR stream
- Tone mapping and displaying the HDR video
Our process is divided into three main steps.
- Setting and aligning the cameras together with the beam splitter.
- Getting the input streams and processing them into a HDR stream
- Tone mapping and displaying the HDR image
HDR Camera
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