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We introduce a High Dynamic Range (HDR) tone mapping technique
that preserves "fine" image features that have significantly
different luminances than their surrounding areas, most notably
sharp specular highlights and significant textures. This work
enhances the family of techniques derived from Durand and Dorsey
02, which utilize bilateral filtering to separate large scale
features from detail features. Using the low noise content of
HDR imagery to our advantage, we introduce the concept of utilizing
shot noise detection (noise outlier rejection) techniques to
alternatively classify fine features. This is accomplished through
the Rank Order Absolute Difference statistic discussed by Garnett
et al 05.

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Eric P. Bennett & Leonard
McMillan
Eric P. Bennett and Leonard McMillan "Fine Feature
Preservation for HDR Tone Mapping" SIGGRAPH 2006 (Boston, MA)
SIGGRAPH Pre-Print PDF (1.7 MB)
SIGGRAPH Supplemental Video (MPEG-4,
21.4 MB)
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HDR Data Courtesy of debevec.org and Greg Ward