High Dynamic Range Video Production, Delivery and Rendering

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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: 124, No. 4, pp. 1–8
Abstract: Over the past decade, much research experience has been gained in the realm of high dynamic range (HDR) imaging. Because of the significantly improved visual experience that HDR imaging offers, the industry has recently taken a strong interest in this set of technologies. This is evident in the active consideration of HDR by standardization bodies, such as the DVD Forum and European Broadcasting Union, in the context of ultrahigh-definition television and the emergence of demonstrations at tradeshows. To enable a more engaging and immersive viewing experience in the home or in the cinema, a range of technologies, workflows, and processes should be adapted, and HDR imaging would need to evolve to become HDR video. Each of a good number of solutions solves part of the problem. However, because a significant number of problems remain, there has been no integrated pipeline that includes everything from capture to post-production, archival and storage, compression, transmission, and display. This paper reviews the requirements for building HDR video pipelines and discusses how and where HDR components can and should be inserted. This leads to a range of scenarios, each with its own expected quality levels, associated costs, and required effort to implement. In particular, an ideal end-to-end HDR video chain is considered, as well as several variants that involve either legacy content or conventional decoding and rendering devices.
Publication Date: 2015-05-01
DOI: 10.5594/j18552
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/j18552
Author(s): Erik Reinhard
bio
Erik Reinhard is a distinguished scientist at Technicolor, France, a company he joined in July 2013. He was previously a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and held academic posts at the University of Central Florida and the University of Bristol. He has cowritten books on HDR imaging, color imaging, and natural image statistics. He was founding editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Applied Perception and is associate editor for that journal and for ACM Transactions on Graphics. His research interests include human visual perception, color science, and HDR imaging.
Edouard Francois
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Edouard François is a principal scientist at Technicolor Research & Innovation, with a major focus on video coding and standardization. He has been participating in different standardization activities, including the specification of the HEVC standard and its extensions. He is also involved in HDR and WCG video coding and co-chairs the MPEG activity in this area.
Ronan Boitard
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Ronan Boitard received an MEng degree in electrical engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) in 2009. He was an engineer with the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) for two years before beginning his Ph.D. degree with Technicolor and the Institute for Research in Information Technology and Random Systems. His current research interests are HDR imaging and video tone mapping and compression.
Christel Chamaret
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Christel Chamaret is working as a senior scientist at Technicolor Research & Innovation in Rennes, France. Her research focuses on image processing and human perception. More precisely, she contributed to the design of perceptual models (visual attention, harmony, aesthetic, emotion) and their associated editing tools. She has also designed and conducted a number of user studies (e.g., pairwise protocol, eye tracking) to validate computational models and image processing algorithms. Previously, she worked at INRIA Rennes (France) and Philips Research (the Netherlands), where she was involved in compression algorithms. She holds two master's degrees defended in 2003 from the University of Nantes and the Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France.
Catherine Serre
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Catherine Serré has been a researcher in the imaging science lab at Technicolor Research & Innovation in Rennes, France, since 2004. She graduated from INSA Rennes in electronics and computer engineering. She has been a project leader of several collaborative projects: PELOPS (ITEA), Futurim@ges (FUI3), and NEVEx (FUI11). Before 2004, she worked in the research and development department of live video production equipment at Thomson-Grass Valley.
Tania Pouli
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Tania Pouli is a researcher at Technicolor Research & Innovation in Rennes, France. Her work focuses on HDR and color imaging, with the aim of treating these two aspects as a single entity. After completing a Ph.D. degree in 2011 at the University of Bristol, focusing on image statistics and color transfer, she moved to the Max Planck Institute for Informatics as a postdoctoral candidate. She has organized and copresented a number of successful courses and tutorials at Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), SIGGRAPH Asia, and Eurographics, including a course on color transfer at SIGGRAPH 2012 and a Eurographics State of the Art Report on image statistics. She is the lead author of the book “Image Statistics in Visual Computing,” published by CRC Press.
Keyword(s): Video Signal Processing
Copyright: © 2015 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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