Modeling Radiometric Uncertainty for Vision with Tone-mapped Color Images

Autor: Chakrabarti, Ayan, Xiong, Ying, Sun, Baochen, Darrell, Trevor, Scharstein, Daniel, Zickler, Todd, Saenko, Kate
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: IEEE Trans. PAMI 36 (2014) 2185-2198
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2318713
Popis: To produce images that are suitable for display, tone-mapping is widely used in digital cameras to map linear color measurements into narrow gamuts with limited dynamic range. This introduces non-linear distortion that must be undone, through a radiometric calibration process, before computer vision systems can analyze such photographs radiometrically. This paper considers the inherent uncertainty of undoing the effects of tone-mapping. We observe that this uncertainty varies substantially across color space, making some pixels more reliable than others. We introduce a model for this uncertainty and a method for fitting it to a given camera or imaging pipeline. Once fit, the model provides for each pixel in a tone-mapped digital photograph a probability distribution over linear scene colors that could have induced it. We demonstrate how these distributions can be useful for visual inference by incorporating them into estimation algorithms for a representative set of vision tasks.
Databáze: arXiv