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Abstract
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A classic photographic task is the mapping of the potentially high
dynamic range of real world luminances to the low dynamic range
of the photographic print. This tone reproduction problem is also
faced by computer graphics practitioners who map digital images to
a low dynamic range print or screen. The work presented in this pa-
per leverages the time-tested techniques of photographic practice to
develop a new tone reproduction operator. In particular, we use and
extend the techniques developed by Ansel Adams to deal with dig-
ital images. The resulting algorithm is simple and produces good
results for a wide variety of images.
CR Categories: I.4.10 [Computing Methodologies]: Image Pro-
cessing and Computer VisionImage Representation
Keywords: Tone reproduction, dynamic range, Zone System.
New operator
2 Background
The tone reproduction problem was rst dened by photographers.
Often their goal is to produce realistic renderings of captured
scenes, and they have to produce such renderings while facing the
Darkest Brightest
textured textured
shadow Dynamic range = 15 scene zones highlight
Middle grey
2x L 2x+1 L 2x+2 L 2x+3 L 2x+4 L . . . 2x+15 L 2x+16 L
Middle grey maps to Zone V
Figure 4: The mapping from scene zones to print zones. Scene zones
at either extreme will map to pure black (zone 0) or white (zone X)
if the dynamic range of the scene is eleven zones or more.
Light
Radiance map courtesy of Greg Ward (top) and Cornell Program of Computer Graphics (bottom)
L
d
0 1 2 3 4 5
World luminance (L)
Input Output
4 Results
Radiance map courtesy of Paul Debevec
Radiance map and top image courtesy of Cornell Program of Computer Graphics
chophysical data [Ferwerda et al. 1996]. We have used the Pattanaik
photopic portion of their algorithm.
Figure 11: Cornell box high dynamic range images including close-ups of the light sources. The dynamic range of this image is 12 zones.
5 zones 4 zones
Renderings by Peter Shirley
9 zones 8 zones
Radiance map courtesy of Greg Ward Radiance map courtesy of Cornell Program of Computer Graphics
Figure 15: A selection of high and low dynamic range images tone-mapped using our new operator. The labels in the gure indicate the
dynamic ranges of the input data.
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