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High-dynamic-range imaging (HDRI or HDR) is a collection of hardware and software technologies that allow the capture, processing, and display of image and video content containing a wide range of intensities between the darkest and brightest areas of an image. Lighting conditions in both natural and man-made environments can range from starlight to artificial illumination to bright sunlight. Traditional imaging techniques typically store information using one byte per pixel for each channel, allowing for 256 distinct steps per channel. Consequently, they can only represent a narrow range of this illumination, often resulting in over- or undersaturated regions in the image. In contrast, HDR technologies represent image content using floating-point numbers and thus both allow for a much larger number of intensity steps to be encoded and reduce the distance between consecutive steps in image intensity.
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Pouli, T. (2015). High Dynamic Range Imaging. In: Luo, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27851-8_177-1
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