Color Volume and Hue-preservation in HDR Tone Mapping
The electrical-electrical transfer function (EETF), described in International Telecommunications Union—Radiocommunication (ITU-R) BT.2390–7, offers four variations, which allow high luminance imagery to be tone-mapped to a lower luminance in different ways. This is useful when converting high dynamic range (HDR) encoding spaces or rendering HDR content on screens that have limited performance. However, for some input colors, these variations introduce drastic changes in hue, in some cases, and do not restrict the output to the desired color volume, in other cases. In this article, a fifth variation is proposed, that preserves the input color’s hue while also restricting the output to the specified color volume. This proposed variation is compared and shown to outperform the four standardized variations.
- Print ISSN
- 1545-0279
- Electronic ISSN
- 2160-2492
- Published
- 2020-05
- Content type
- Original Research
- Keywords
- Electrical-electrical transfer function (EETF), high dynamic range (HDR), hybrid log-gamma (HLG), International Telecommunications Union—Radiocommunication (ITU-R)BT2390, maxRGB, perceptual quantizer (PQ), tone mapping
- DOI
- 10.5594/JMI.2020.2984046