This paper presents a novel framework to extend the dynamic range of images called Unbounded High Dynamic Range (UHDR) photography with a modulo camera. A modulo camera could theoretically take unbounded radiance levels by keeping only the least significant bits. We show that with limited bit depth, very high radiance levels can be recovered from a single modulus image with our newly proposed unwrapping algorithm for natural images. We can also obtain an HDR image with details equally well preserved for all radiance levels by merging the least number of modulus images. Synthetic experiment and experiment with a real modulo camera show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging

Modulo Camera

Technical Paper: [PDF]

Poster: [PDF]

Video:

H. Zhao, B. Shi, C. Cull, S.-K. Yeung, R. Raskar. Unbounded High Dynamic Range Photography using a Modulo Camera. Computational Photography (ICCP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2015.

We would like to acknowledge Brian Tyrrell, Thomas Gardner, Julio Estrada, Amit Agrawal and Zhen Xie for their valuable insights and help.

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