WO2003019930A1 - Method and apparatus for applying tone mapping functions to color images - Google Patents
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- a digital image may be represented in an output-device space, such as display RGB, or in a capture-device space, such as camera RGB, or in a device-independent space, such as CIE tristimulus space XYZ.
- the relative luminance values of all pixels in the image determine the tone properties of the image.
- Tone mapping is performed to bring the overall brightness of a digitally captured image to a level that is pleasing to the human eye when the image is displayed. This is especially important for images that are under-exposed or over-exposed. Tone mapping is frequently performed with a "tone curve" that maps the original digital levels to new ones. The same tone curve is applied to all color channels independently. The tone mapping is simple and fast, and it does not introduce out-of-gamut colors. However, applying tone mapping curves to different color channels independently can introduce color distortions for some images since the values of different color channels are remapped to new values independently of each other. As a result, the chromaticity of individual pixels can change.
- a pixel of a digital image is processed by applying a tone mapping function to a first color channel of the pixel, whereby a value of the first color channel is changed by a scale factor; and applying the scale factor to all other color channels of the pixel.
- the first color channel most closely matches relative luminance response of the human visual system.
- Figure 1 is an illustration of a method of applying tone mapping functions to color images.
- Figure 2 is an illustration of a processor for applying tone mapping functions to color images.
- a method of processing a pixel of a digital image includes applying a tone mapping function to a first color channel of the pixel (110), whereby a value of the first color channel is changed by a scale factor; and applying the scale factor to all other color channels of the pixel (112).
- the first color channel most closely matches relative luminance response of the human visual system.
- A represents the channel most closely matching a luminance function in the color space, and
- a k represents the other n-1 channels of the color space.
- the method of Figure 1 may be represented mathematically as follows:
- TM(*) is a tone mapping function
- a ' and A k ' are the modified values of the color channels
- scale factor SF A
- the pixels are processed independently.
- a scale factor is determined for one color channel of a pixel, and applied to each other color channel of that pixel. Any tone mapping function may be used.
- the chromacity of pixels in the image does not change (unlike conventional tone mapping techniques that apply tone-mapping functions to different color channels independently).
- the method of Figure 1 keeps the chromaticity, or the vector orientation in the A k color space, or the spectrum shape of each pixel's color approximately the same after the tone mapping; only the vector length in A k space (or the scale factor of the spectrum) is changed.
- noise-balancing terms may be added to each channel to prevent noise amplification.
- the noise balancing terms are small positive numbers that are a function of the amount of noise in the image or the white point of the color space used to represent the image.
- the noise terms may be set to the noise level, twice the noise level, or some other value. As long as the noise balancing terms are reasonably close to the noise level in the image, the method is not sensitive to variations in how the noise level is determined.
- Ak' (A k + A k (noise)) (A L + A L( noise)) A' L .
- noise balancing terms has very little influence on the chromaticities of high-luminance pixels, but helps reduce the noise amplification problem on low-luminance pixels.
- the noise balancing terms are also helpful in avoiding division by zero when a zero luminance value is mapped to a non-zero value on the tone curve.
- the method of Figure 1 is applied to an image represented in positive linear color space.
- linear positive color space examples include the CIE tristimulus XYZ space, RGB space, and human cone sensitivity space.
- the positive linear color space may include any number of color channels.
- X n0 ⁇ se> Ynoise, and Z n0 ⁇ se are the noise-balancing terms and they may be small positive values representing the noise levels in each color channel or they may be a triplet of numbers proportional to the white point of the color space used to represent the image.
- the Green channel is usually the channel that most closely matches the relative luminance response of the human visual system. Therefore, a tone-mapping function is usually applied to the Green channel, and the Red and Blue values are adjusted similarly to keep the color vector orientation constant in the RGB space. Whether the Green channel is tone mapped first depends upon the particular type of color space. In certain instances, either the Red or Blue channel may be tone mapped first instead of the Green channel.
- FIG. 2 shows a processor 210 that is programmed to tone map a color image (IN).
- the processor 210 applies a tone mapping function to the color channel most closely matching relative luminance response of the human visual system; and applies scale factors to all other color channels.
- the pixels in the output image (OUT) retain their chromacity.
- the processor 210 may be used in applications such as digital cameras, scanners, printers, displays, and image processing software applications.
- Software for the processor 210 is encoded in computer memory 212.
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