HDR Challenges and Solutions

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 132, No. 10, pp. 27–42
Abstract: For content producers who need to make drastic choices to allocate limited contrast and colors in standard dynamic range (SDR), high dynamic range (HDR) offers the opportunity to show more. This means greater freedom and flexibility for their storytelling. However, future-proof HDR content presents its own challenges, for example, the wide variation in HDR display capabilities and the desire to have any production, HDR or SDR, play optimally on any display, HDR or SDR. The typical solution to this issue is tone mapping, whether a tone compression to map from HDR to a lower HDR or SDR luminance, or tone expansion to map from SDR or HDR to a higher HDR luminance. Various techniques of tone mapping, including hybrid log-gamma (HLG), static look-up tables (LUTs) and dynamic metadata, are considered, and the relative advantages and performance are analyzed. A proposed solution that has been introduced in practice, “Advanced HDR by Technicolor,” is described.
Publication Date: 2023-11-01
DOI: 10.5594/JMI.2023.3325513
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/JMI.2023.3325513
Author(s): Bill Redmann
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Bill Redmann is the director of standards for Immersive Media Technologies at InterDigital, Wilmington, DE, contributing to SMPTE, ATSC, VR-IF, and UHDF where he serves as TC-30MR Metadata Registers chair, PT9 Sustainability chair, member, and board member, respectively. A SMPTE Fellow, he holds 87 U.S. patents, plus an MS degree in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
David Touze
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David Touze is a system architect at InterDigital, Wilmington, DE. He has a background in hardware design, system architecture, and image/video processing. He and his team are conducting research on new video formats with a major focus on HDR and wide-color-gamut techniques adapted to live video production and distribution workflows.
Frédéric Plissonneau
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Frédéric Plissonneau graduated from the INSA in Rennes, France, in 1988, and has been working in the video compression domain with Thomson, Rennes, and then Technicolor, Rennes, as an engineer/team leader and project leader in the field of ASIC technologies. He is currently focused on HDR in the R&I Video Lab in Rennes.
Alan Stein
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Alan Stein leads the Visual Standards team of technical experts participating in video standards and industry forums at InterDigital, Wilmington, DE. He is a board member and marketing chair of MC-IF and long-time chair of ATSC’s TG3/S41 group, the video group for ATSC 3.0. He received ATSC’s Bernard Lechner Award in 2021. He holds 17 patents in the realm of digital video.
Guy Ducos
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Guy Ducos is responsible for promoting HDR technologies co-developed by Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, to test, implement, and deploy solutions with studios, broadcasters, operators, and manufacturers. He has an MScEE degree and over 20 years of experience in TV and telecom as a VP and a line manager at Philips Semiconductors, NXP, Eindhoven. He now consults on business development at TekUup, Caen, France.
Keyword(s): Artistic Intent, HDR, HLG, Inverse Tone Mapping, Live Production, Look-up Tables (LUT), PQ, SDR, Shading, SL-HDR, Tone Mapping, Video
Copyright: © 2023 SMPTE

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